Post by artraveler on Sept 3, 2019 9:06:51 GMT -8
Gentleman Jack
Regardless of how you feel about homosexuality the life and times of Anne Lister are interesting. Anne Lister kept a diary on a daily basis from the time she was 16. Over the years she recorded everything in her life, what happened, who it happened to, and how it felt. Anne is born in 1791. Her father, Captain Lister commanded English troops in Boston in 1775. To a historian, personal journals and diaries are a wonderful material to understand an event or time period.
Anne’s journals are detailed covering her life, loves, sexual encounters seductions and disappointments. She is wealthy enough to live as she pleases, and she pleases to be extravert and aggressive. Qualities that in a man at the same time, early 19th century, people would find admirable.
The HBO series covers only a small part of Ann’s life the 1830s when she courted Anne Walker. The two shared a symbolic marriage at Holy Trinity Church in York that lasted until Ann’s death in 1841. The series suggests that one reason for Lister courting Anne Walker is her wealth. It is true that after their wedding and Anne Walker moving in with Lister the improvements in Shibden Hall were accelerated and Lister’s investments in the growing industrial revolution were better funded.
The series is unfortunately promoted as a justification for homosexual relationships, but in reality, there is almost nothing salacious. A couple of brief nude shots, breasts, and Anne and her various paramours in bed, fully clothed and kissing. There is a lot of lesbian kissing, but the sex is left to the viewers imagination. In this day every opportunity to make this series XXX is actually avoided. To a viewer, the fact that Anne Lister was a lesbian is downplayed. Something that will not go over well in the LGBTXYZQRSTYEMOP, community. It is not in your face and treats Anne and her lovers as real people and not “icons of the struggle. “
The series stars Suranne Jones as Anne Lister. She is well known in English television. Sophie Rundle as Ann Walker and Gemma Whelan as Anne’s sister Marian. Fans of shows like Downton Abby, Game of Thrones and other time period drams will find familiar ground with Gentleman Jack. The costuming and settings are excellent.
The series gives some insights to what would become Victorian morality. Anne dresses in clothes that are masculine and in her upper crust social circle there is no doubt about her sexual orientation she is accepted at the highest levels of society. She is even invited to the Queen of Denmark’s birthday party.
Regardless of how you feel about homosexuality the life and times of Anne Lister are interesting. Anne Lister kept a diary on a daily basis from the time she was 16. Over the years she recorded everything in her life, what happened, who it happened to, and how it felt. Anne is born in 1791. Her father, Captain Lister commanded English troops in Boston in 1775. To a historian, personal journals and diaries are a wonderful material to understand an event or time period.
Anne’s journals are detailed covering her life, loves, sexual encounters seductions and disappointments. She is wealthy enough to live as she pleases, and she pleases to be extravert and aggressive. Qualities that in a man at the same time, early 19th century, people would find admirable.
The HBO series covers only a small part of Ann’s life the 1830s when she courted Anne Walker. The two shared a symbolic marriage at Holy Trinity Church in York that lasted until Ann’s death in 1841. The series suggests that one reason for Lister courting Anne Walker is her wealth. It is true that after their wedding and Anne Walker moving in with Lister the improvements in Shibden Hall were accelerated and Lister’s investments in the growing industrial revolution were better funded.
The series is unfortunately promoted as a justification for homosexual relationships, but in reality, there is almost nothing salacious. A couple of brief nude shots, breasts, and Anne and her various paramours in bed, fully clothed and kissing. There is a lot of lesbian kissing, but the sex is left to the viewers imagination. In this day every opportunity to make this series XXX is actually avoided. To a viewer, the fact that Anne Lister was a lesbian is downplayed. Something that will not go over well in the LGBTXYZQRSTYEMOP, community. It is not in your face and treats Anne and her lovers as real people and not “icons of the struggle. “
The series stars Suranne Jones as Anne Lister. She is well known in English television. Sophie Rundle as Ann Walker and Gemma Whelan as Anne’s sister Marian. Fans of shows like Downton Abby, Game of Thrones and other time period drams will find familiar ground with Gentleman Jack. The costuming and settings are excellent.
The series gives some insights to what would become Victorian morality. Anne dresses in clothes that are masculine and in her upper crust social circle there is no doubt about her sexual orientation she is accepted at the highest levels of society. She is even invited to the Queen of Denmark’s birthday party.