Anne Lister's diaries and gendered attitudes towards long-eighteenth century travel

Anne Lister's diaries, kept between 1816-1840, have been the subject of a significant amount of attention since Helena Whitbread's discovery and partial decoding thereof in the early 1980s. Most extant scholarship focuses on Lister's status as an early female entrepreneur and as 'the first modern British lesbian.' This places Lister amongst a much…