About: Anne Lister   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

She was a rural gentlewoman who directed the renovation and landscaping of Shibden Hall, near Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire. She inherited the hall from her uncle. Anne was the daughter of Jeremy Lister who as a young man in 1775 served with the British 10th Regiment of Foot in the Battles of Lexington and Concord. He wrote a detailed account of the day's events, the original of which is kept at Shibden Hall. During her life she wrote a four-million-word diary. Around one-sixth of the diary is encrypted and describes quite graphically her lesbian nature and affairs.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Anne Lister
rdfs:comment
  • She was a rural gentlewoman who directed the renovation and landscaping of Shibden Hall, near Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire. She inherited the hall from her uncle. Anne was the daughter of Jeremy Lister who as a young man in 1775 served with the British 10th Regiment of Foot in the Battles of Lexington and Concord. He wrote a detailed account of the day's events, the original of which is kept at Shibden Hall. During her life she wrote a four-million-word diary. Around one-sixth of the diary is encrypted and describes quite graphically her lesbian nature and affairs.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • She was a rural gentlewoman who directed the renovation and landscaping of Shibden Hall, near Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire. She inherited the hall from her uncle. Anne was the daughter of Jeremy Lister who as a young man in 1775 served with the British 10th Regiment of Foot in the Battles of Lexington and Concord. He wrote a detailed account of the day's events, the original of which is kept at Shibden Hall. During her life she wrote a four-million-word diary. Around one-sixth of the diary is encrypted and describes quite graphically her lesbian nature and affairs. Her affair with a wealthy heiress, Ann Walker, was a story of local repute and her eventual marriage to Anne highly unusual. During her life she adapted Shibden Hall quite significantly to her own design and took part in many activities that were not perceived as the norm for gentlewomen, such as owning a colliery.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software