The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

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• Genre(s): Drama, Family, Romance, TV Movie
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): James Kent, James Mountain, Will Cummins, Jane Burrows, Lee Trevor See all Crew
• Cast(s): Maxine Peake, Anna Madeley, Susan Lynch, Christine Bottomley, Gemma Jones See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 30min
• Music: Wayne Brooks,Dan Dewsnap,Avshalom Caspi,Philip Barnes,John Pearson
• Award(s): Jury 2010 (Won) Awards List
• Similar To: A Christmas Cruise, Christmas Lodge
• Story:
  In nineteenth century Yorkshire wealthy orphan Anne Lister lives with an aunt and uncle, anxious for her to marry well and blissfully unaware that she is a lesbian,recording her thoughts and exploits in a coded diary. When her lover Mariana Belcombe makes a marriage of convenience to rich old Charles Lawton,she feels betrayed and,although Mariana visits and has sex with her,the relationship is going nowhere. Helped by old flame Tib she makes a play for innocent Miss Browne but sees she is barking up the wrong tree and diverts herself by renovating the family hall. A drunken Tib almost exposes her secret and scornful mine-owner Christopher Rawson,whose marriage proposal she rejects,tells her that her sexuality is a subject of local gossip. Undeterred Anne meets Ann Walker who becomes her new 'wife' and they open a coal-mine ,living happily together. An end title tells us that Anne Lister died prematurely in 1840 on holiday in Russia.
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