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Set in 1832 West Yorkshire, England and inspired by the true-story and coded journals of Anne Lister, this series follows her attempt to revitalize her inherited home, Shibdhen Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of Lister’s plan is to help the fate of her own family by taking a wife.
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Set in 1832 West Yorkshire, England and inspired by the true-story and coded journals of Anne Lister, this series follows her attempt to revitalize her inherited home, Shibdhen Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of Lister’s plan is to help the fate of her own family by taking a wife.
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Drama Series | 2020
Best Actress | 2020 | Suranne
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Unsung TV Show of the Year | 2020
Television Composer of the Year For | 2019
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In November 2016, screenwriter Sally Wainwright was awarded the £30,000 screenwriting fellowship grant from the charitable organisation the Wellcome Trust, in partnership with Film4 and the British Film Institute. Wainwright disclosed to the media that she was writing a drama series about the landowner, industrialist, and intellectual Anne Lister and would use the grant to further her research.
The title comes from a slur from the time period. "Gentleman" refers to Anne Lister's more masculine behavioral traits such as wearing dark and black clothing and her knowledge of subjects not usually studied by women at the time. "Jack" is term used then for dyke or lesbian (which wasn't a phrase back then).
The series is based on the collective diaries of Anne Lister's - containing over 4 million words and written largely in code.
Sally Wainwright, a native of Yorkshire, had grown up in the environs of Shibden Hall and had had ambitions to write a drama based on Anne Lister for over 20 years.
Sally Wainwright described Lister as "a gift to a dramatist" and "one of the most exuberant, thrilling, and brilliant women in British history."
