The Historic and Academic Background of Lister Studies

Saturday, June 13, 2026 - 07:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Orr's dissertation aims to approach the Lister documentary material from previously unexplored angles. So the first step is to map out the existing landscape. (To be honest, it sometimes feels like Orr is criticizing previous work for not having studied aspects it didn't set out to study. But I guess a dissertation needs to justify its existence.) Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #564b Orr 2006 A Sojourn in Paris - Representations of “Anne Lister” About LHMP Full citation: Orr, Dannielle. 2006. A Sojourn in Paris 1824-25: Sex and Sociability in the Manuscript Writings of Anne Lister (1791-1840). (Doctoral Dissertation, Murdoch University) Representations of “Anne Lister” This section describes the nature of the Shibden Hall archives and their history. It covers the history of the several times the cipher has been assailed, from John Lister and Arthur Burrell’s initial cracking of the code, through several…