In this special bonus episode, Sarah Wingrove (University of Surrey) is back to tell us more about Anne Lister and Gentleman Jack and about all the impressive efforts the fan community is putting into reviving the HBO/BBC TV series Gentleman Jack after a surprising cancellation. F-Annes around the world are demanding to see more of the 19th century gender nonconforming lesbian, whose detailed diaries form the basis for the series and for Sarah’s exciting research. I’m tipping my imaginary hat to the fan community and to this brilliant Anne Lister expert!

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People, Texts and Entities mentioned:

Gentleman Jack
Anne Lister
“Anne Lister Fan Research” with Sarah Wingrove (Queer Lit)
Sally Wainwright (@spiceyw)
Happy Valley
Lookout Point
Anne Walker
Shibden Hall
The L Word
@Goretober13
#representationmatters
Wynonna Earp
The 100
Skala Eressos Women’s Festival (@eressos_womens_festival)
Janet Lea’s The Gentleman Jack effect
Bury Your Gays trope
Tara and Willow
Buffy
Pat Esgate (@PatEsgate)
“What's Next for GJ with Sally Wainwright” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvxehbgfm8Q
#ALBW Anne Lister Birthday week
Suranne Jones
Helen Hawkins
Save Gentleman Jack - Flash Mob Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeqgPK0LMnw
O’Hooley & Tidow
Write A Well-Worded Letter
Casie Bloys (HBO Chief Content Officer)
Kit Heyam’s Before We Were Trans
“Queer Kings and Trans Histories” with Kit Heyam (Queer Lit)
Alexis Duggins. “‘Gentleman Jack has genuinely saved lives’: readers respond to the show’s cancellation” The Guardian, 15 July 2022.
Caroline Gonda
Dyke*March Cologne (@dykemarchcologne)
Dyking Out podcast (@dykingout)
Anne Lister Society
Footnote from Sarah: Anne says she does not identify with “sapphic” when talking to Maria Barlow in Paris, as described in Helena Whitbread’s No Priest But Love and Chris Roulston’s “Sexuality in Translation: Anne Lister and the Ancients”.

Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:

1.Who is Anne Lister?
2.Why is it important to consider ambiguities and possibilities when we look at queer people and characters in history?
3.What is presentism?
4.Sarah talks about the increasing agency of fan communities. Do you have another example for this?
5.In how far are fans becoming co-creators and authors?