Revealing Anne Lister (2010)
Early 19th-century England is usually seen through the eyes of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters. Sue Perkins explores a dramatically different version, as lived and recorded by Anne Lister. A Yorkshire landowner, she kept a detailed, partly coded diary, revealing graphic details of her love affairs with women. Regency England was surprisingly tolerant of Anne's chosen lifestyle, and it was only when Anne sought to sink a coal mine on her land that criticism of her private life became public.
...
Watch Trailer
Cast
Similar titles
Reviews
Too much of everything
More
Instant Favorite.
More
It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
More
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
More