We can but hope, but I was not surprized it was not mentioned.
But in the documentary that followed I was interested to see that at Anne
Listers' 'first relationship' while at a girls boarding school, was with a
a Madras born Anglo-Asian, Eliza Raine.
Ingrid Pollard
On Thu, May 27, 2010 9:30 pm, Angela Allison wrote:
> Is Jeanette Winterson simply being coy when she states, in the Radio
> Times article, 29th May-4th June, that Anne Lister was born into a
> military family? In fact Lister was born into a slave-owning family. The
> Listers of
> Shibden Hall, West Yorkshire, which Ann Lister inherited in 1826,
> included Louisa Ann Lister, who lived with her son Charles & daughter Anne.
> Louisa had been born in Jamaica or on the island of St Vincent.
> James Lister was a Liverpool cotton broker and William Fane Lister
> owned a 420 slave plantation in Jamaica.
>
> I guess I can only hope that the actual programme, will touch on the
> true source of Lister's wealth, a wealth, which enabled her to live an
> unconventional life.
>
> Angela Allison
> Coventry, UK
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