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KatalógusnévLister, Anne

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Anne Lister: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Anne Lister: No Priest But Love

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Saturday 17 April [Halifax]

Letter from M- (Lawton). A good deal better. Has been bled with leeches & taken an emetic which did her m ore good than anything. 'As long, my dear Fred, as I reign undisturbed over your heart, I am satisfied. 'Tis he only kingdom in the world that I covet &, assured that no rival can have power to dethrone me, I am fully & entirely satisfied. Tell me this, however, sometimes, & then perhaps I shall not doubt again' … She complains of suffering much from the piles. Alludes to our living together at the end of the letter.

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Thursday 15 April [Halifax]

In the afternoon, at 4, set off to Lightcliffe to call on Mrs Priestley after the death of her mother-in-law, 3 weeks ago. Mrs Priestley was dressing to go to Cliff-hill, that Miss Griesdale & I had to introduce ourselves. I daresay we were 20 minutes together tete-a-tete & got in very well, but, after hearing so much of her, of her talent, of her spending 2/3 of her time in courtly society at Lowther Castle, etc, I was inwardly surprised to see a fat, rather untidy, vulgar looking woman, apparently on the wrong side of 30, & whose manner of speaking & pronunciation were far from the most elegant, or, occasionally, from the most proper. However, Mrs Priestley never set up her manners, on the contrary, mentioned her as a proof that first-rate society cannot always impart to those around them the first-rate polish which they themselves possess.

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Monday 19 April [Halifax]

Inadvertently setting down my writing desk on the table, broke the watch-key M- gave me in 1814. If I were at all superstitious, I might think this ominous. I had certainly never less idea, hope, or rather wish, of our being ultimately together than I have at present.
Now, poor soul, she has got the piles. She will indeed be worn out in the service of another & she has not talent enough to blind me to the discovery or charm me from the remembrance of all this.

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Thursday 22 April [Halifax]

At 10 1/2 … down the old bank to see [Ellen Empson] … Ellen was very agreeable. She hears a great deal of me. 'The people say, „And do you really like somebody?” ' But Ellen would not give up her authority. 'It is no great compliment for Miss Lister to single out anybody after being intimate with Mrs Tom Rawson and Miss Browne.'
Miss Browne, they say, is my shadow. I laughed & said I was amused. At any rate, the people knew nothing about me for I never went to their parties or mixed with them at all, & I only hoped Ellen never enlightened them about me, giving her, at the same time, to understand that I thought myself of that importance that I might choose my own society, that I always consulted my own inclination & comfort & should feel at perfect liberty to walk with a chimney-sweep if I chose. Before all this, Ellen had asked me not to study so much. She said I should be going mad. She had thought so often, for I was certainly odd. I laughed & said I was sane enough yet, I hoped, & people might be odd without being mad, adding that, if I was mad, I would beg to go to Elvington to show her what I was like… Ellen seemed to say the people would willingly lay hold of anything against me if they could but that I gave them no opportunity. I certainly will not put myself much in their way… Said Ellen, 'I wish you did not live at Shibden Hall. They will never appreciate you there.'

From Monday 10 May 1819 to Saturday 12 June 1819, Anne was in Paris with her Aunt Anne. She did not inform her friends where she was going, merely telling them she was going away with her aunt on account of the latter's poor health.
On her return, she settled back into her routine of visiting the local families, going to the library, attending church on Sunday, catching up with her studies. She found life in Halifax rather tedious after her travels abroad.

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