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Ann Walker (20 May 1803 – 25 February 1854) was an Englishwoman, married in Britain's first known lesbian wedding, to diarist and fellow Yorkshire landowner Anne Lister.
Apr 19, 2019 · On February 10, 1835, two women from West Yorkshire, England, tucked into a plum pudding to celebrate the first anniversary of their secret marriage. Around one year earlier, Anne Lister and Ann...
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Apr 23, 2019 · In Ann Walker, a 29-year-old neighbor living alone at the cavernous Crow Nest estate, Lister found a perfect mate.
Apr 25, 2019 · Anne Lister was one of the 19th century's most intriguing characters: she was a businesswoman, a mountaineer, a world traveler, and a science enthusiast. But it’s her...
In Search of Ann Walker – or ISAW – is a collective of researchers, transcribers, administrators and writers whose mission is to tell the full and true story of the REAL Ann Walker. We spend our time delving through archives, researching online and writing about Ann and those around her.
Apr 22, 2019 · HBO's Gentleman Jack follows the true story of queer scholar and businesswoman Anne Lister, but the show features another important figure at her side. Ann Walker, who was also a real person,...
May 20, 2019 · Halifax businesswoman Anne Lister - whose incredible life story is told in new BBC period drama Gentleman Jack - found love and companionship with her lesbian partner Ann Walker, a fellow...
Ann Walker was a shy, wealthy young woman from Lightcliffe, who came to live at Shibden in 1834. Ann Walker had the social standing that Anne craved. In line with Anne Lister's disregard for socially acceptable relationships, she succeeded in marrying Ann Walker in.
Ann Walker was a shy, gentle 29-year-old heiress from a larger neighbouring estate. The two women had first met years ago, when Anne was in her 20s and Ann just a teenager.
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She died of a prolonged fever six weeks later, aged 49, at the edge of the Russian empire (in what is now Kutaisi, Georgia) – the furthest her extensive travels had ever taken her from Shibden Hall. The obituary in the Halifax paper cited her “mental energy and courage.”
