num_pages: 298
description: This is a reappraisal of the lesbian landowner, Anne Lister (1791-1840), who was a scholar, heiress, traveller and diarist. Her challenge to conventional behaviour is well documented in her diaries, showing here the opportunities that could be won in those days for independent women.
language: English
title: Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority : The Anne Lister Diaries and Other Writings 1833-36
titlecomplete: Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority : The Anne Lister Diaries and Other Writings 1833-36
genres: Feminism, Lesbian, Nonfiction, History, LGBT, Queer, Biography
ratings_count: 127
publisher: Rivers Oram Pr