Summary of Angela Steidele's Gentleman Jack

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#1 Anne Lister was a girl who was different from the other girls at her boarding school. She wanted to learn more than was customary for girls her age, and she was called the Solomon of the school.

#2 Anne’s childhood was extremely poor. She had little money, and her father did not spend it wisely. She spent her early years in the Yorkshire Wolds, and her later years in the Ripon Girls’ School.

#3 Anne Lister was sent to Manor House School in York in 1805 or 1806, which was considered one of the best girls’ schools in the area. She was schooled in reading, writing, and arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, geography, history, and heraldry.

#4 Anne continued her Latin lessons at her own request, for eight hours a week. She did not sleep in the dormitories, but instead shared an attic room with one other girl: Eliza Raine.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822546370

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Insights on Angela Steidele's Gentleman Jack

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Anne Lister was a girl who was different from the other girls at her boarding school. She wanted to learn more than was customary for girls her age, and she was called the Solomon of the school.

#2

Anne’s childhood was extremely poor. She had little money, and her father did not spend it wisely. She spent her early years in the Yorkshire Wolds, and her later years in the Ripon Girls’ School.

#3

Anne Lister was sent to Manor House School in York in 1805 or 1806, which was considered one of the best girls’ schools in the area. She was schooled in reading, writing, and arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, geography, history, and heraldry.

#4

Anne continued her Latin lessons at her own request, for eight hours a week. She did not sleep in the dormitories, but instead shared an attic room with one other girl: Eliza Raine.

#5

Anne received lessons from the Halifax theologian Samuel Knight in the fall of 1806, learning algebra, rhetoric, and classical languages. She enjoyed competing against her younger brother Samuel in masculine arts, such as chess, fencing, or translating from Latin.

#6

Anne’s interest in the Classics was not just because they were part of the curriculum for young men; she noticed that classical literature exalted eroticism and desire, without Christian moralising.

#7

Anne Lister, a respectable English girl, read the works of Martial and other Roman poets, and found them to be erotic. She used these poems to masturbate to.

#8

Eliza’s life was already complicated. She had to deal with the fact that her sister Jane had married a man named Henry Boulton, and had sailed to India with him.

#9

In 1808, Anne went to stay with her uncle James Raine in Scarborough, and met his wife and four young children. She and Eliza spent three weeks in