Anne Lister's Political Landscape

Friday, July 24, 2026 - 11:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project The modern political landscape might suggest an association between queer lives and progressive politics, but history is more complicated than that. Like some of her contemporaries, Lister embraced what Lanser frames as a "compensatory conservatism," resting also on her status as a landowner and entrepreneur, where conservative politics to some extent helped balance out the eccentricities of her personal life. Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #570 Lanser 2023 Anne Lister’s Politics About LHMP Full citation: Lanser, Susan S. 2023. “Anne Lister’s Politics” in Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’, Chris Roulston & Caroline Gonda, eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009280723 Publication summary: At the time of writing, the ebook of this publication was available through Open Access at not cost at the following url:…