"Anne Lister, an outwardly conventional gentlewoman living in Halifax at the beginning of the last century, had a secret life that would have shocked local society. Her diaries, written in such a complex code that they were not deciphered until the 1980s, reveal that she was really a lesbian Don Juan." (Radio Times, 30/4-6/5/1994).—GlosBio
"In 1920, British historians broke the code in Anne Lister's journal, to discover the first pre-twentieth century written account of a sexual relationship between women. This dramatization tells the story of her relationship with a local woman, with whom Anne, too. considered herself married."—GlosBio