I Know My Own Heart

The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840

by Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread

1992 370 pages eng

When this volume of Anne Lister's diaries was first published in 1988, it was hailed as a vital piece of lost lesbian history. The editor, Helena Whitbread, had spent years painstakingly researching and transcribing Lister's extensive journals, much of which were written in an elaborate code - what …