The Brontë Lounge with Helena Whitbread

On the anniversary of the birth of celebrated 19th-century diarist Anne Lister, you’re invited to the Brontë Lounge to talk with Lister’s biographer, Helena Whitbread MBE. 

Since 1983, Helena has been carefully decoding the ‘crypt hand’ in which Lister wrote her diaries, becoming the first person in 1988 to publish about Lister’s relationships with other women. Helena has been editing, publishing and researching the context of Anne’s diaries ever since. She joins us tonight to share her insight with host Helen Meller and answer your questions.

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