Patricia L Hughes Gentleman Jack The Early Life of Miss Anne Lister and the Curious Tale of Miss Eliza Raine

This tale of Georgian England from real diaries and letters shows how money, colour and social background created discord for two young women. The county of Yorkshire, made famous by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë who lived nearby, was where Anne and Eliza met. Both girls were born in 1791. Anne came from the poorest branch of a set of Halifax landed gentry. She wrote journals from 1806 when she was 15 until her death in 1840, and filed all her letters in date order, including Eliza's. All her papers were hidden away in her house until 1925, when the last Lister gave them to Halifax library. They form the text of this book.