The Complications of Lister's Encryption

Monday, June 15, 2026 - 17:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project It's been along day involving a flat tire and I'm tired, so no clever intro today. Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #564d Orr 2006 A Sojourn in Paris - Sexuality and Sociality in Anne’s Journals 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) Sexuality and Sociality in Anne’s Journals In this section, Orr challenges the accepted ideas about the meaning and uses of Lister’s “crypt hand.” Most previous editors have presented excerpts from the diaries that do not clearly distinguish material recorded in cipher from that in ordinary writing. Whitbread notes the crypt hand was used to record Lester’s “intimate” (that is, sexual) life, creating the impression that her sexual and emotional observations were always encrypted and that crypt hand was used only for this purpose. But…