As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836–38 [ebook ed.] 9781526157355, 1526157357

Table of contents :
List of Figures and Maps
Acknowledgements
Anne Lister and Ann Walker: Their World
Preface
Introduction
Anne Lister and Ann Walker 1832–34: wooing, seducing, marrying
People and places: the Shibden and Crow Nest estates
Anne Lister and Ann Walker 1835–36: first years of marriage
Note on the Text
The Anne Lister Diaries
I   Living Married Life at Shibden: May–August 1836
II  The Last of her Generation: September–October 1836
III  Mariana Lawton Visits Shibden: November–December 1836
IV   Maintaining the Upper Hand: Money: January 1837
V    Reading around the World: Origins: February–March 1837
VI   Maintaining the Upper Hand – Still: April–May 1837
VII  Getting both Wortleys Elected to Parliament: June–August 1837
VIII Two Fortunes are Better than One: September–October 1837
IX   Yorkshire Businesswoman, Northern Star: November–December 1837
X    Reading around the World: Russia: January–February 1838
XI   How to Get Off – and Where To?: March–May 1838
Epilogue
Afterword
Appendices
An Anne Lister glossary
People and places: Ann Walker's family networks
Voting in the 1837 election
Notes
Bibliography
Index