Anne Lister – 1791-1840 / Mariana Belcombe Lawton
Written by: Leo Lawton October 25, 2015 The daughter of a British soldier of Halifax, Yorkshire, who fought at Lexington and Concord in the colonial uprising, Anne was a confirmed open lesbian in her early teens, unheard of in her time. Her first love was Eliza Raine with whom she shared a room at boarding school. One of her next […]
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