Here's what we know about Anne Lister, the inspiration for HBO's new show Gentleman Jack. Matt Squire/HBO Anne Lister (Suranne Jones) seduces Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle) in Gentleman Jack.

The real Anne Lister (nicknamed “Gentleman Jack” for her demeanor and love of black suits) was a prolific writer who left behind many, many diaries detailing her life that have proved to be ...

In 1832, Anne Lister knew that if the wrong pair of eyes ... decided to turn Lister’s story into a TV show — “Gentleman Jack” will premiere on Monday on HBO. It gets its title from ...

Tourists from more than 20 countries were among those who descended on Halifax for this year’s Anne Lister Birthday Festival.

Anne Lister was one of the 19th century's most ... Due in part to her rather masculine fashion sense, Lister was nicknamed “Gentleman Jack.” Which also happens to be the title of a new HBO ...

As Northern Ballet's first large-scale commission since 2021 and the first under Artistic Director Federico Bonelli, ...

Gentleman Jack's lesbian love story of Anne Lister and Ann Walker is a true tale centuries ahead of its time. And to think we would have never known the reality if it wasn't for Lister's love of a ...

Suranne Jones gives a performance worthy of Anne Lister's legacy, while the rest of "Gentleman Jack" endeavors to keep up. At the very end of “Gentleman Jack‘s” first episode, the eponymous ...

That’s Anne Lister of Shibden Hall, Halifax, for you – landowner, industrialist, mountaineer, writer, lover of women – as portrayed in Gentleman Jack. She lived two and a half centuries ago.

Gentleman Jack Season 2 is starting to get seriously interesting after Anne Lister's (played by Suranne Jones) former flame, Mariana Lawton (Lydia Leonard) decided to make an appearance ...

Gentleman Jack aired on the lower-trafficked Monday night, with its second season, delayed by the pandemic, among HBO’s lower rated original series. Using the real life diaries of Anne Lister as ...