Every Era Invents Its Own Anne Lister

Sunday, June 14, 2026 - 17:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Today's section of Orr's dissertation looks at the ways in which other researchers have interpreted Lister's life. Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #564c Orr 2006 A Sojourn in Paris - Theorizing Anne’s Sexual and Social Identity 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) Theorizing Anne’s Sexual and Social Identity Each of the major editions of Lister material focused on selected aspects of her social or sexual identity at specific life stages. This disjunction mirrors similar disjunctions within lesbian and feminist history. Operating in the context of queer and feminist academics of the 1970s and 1980s, Whitbread and Faderman tended to view Lister’s sexuality through a modern lens, applying sexological theories, or viewing her as transmasculine. Faderman’s claim that…