The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister Page #2

Synopsis: 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. Anne is 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 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....
Director(s): James Kent
Production: The Oxford Film Company
 
IMDB:
7.0
TV-14
Year:
2010
92 min
162 Views


You...have such a penetrating countenance.

Well, sometimes I'm more anxious

to be penetrating than at others.

Oh, forgive my demeanour. I have thought

of you often since our first meeting.

Thinking of me often

and not liking to look at me

- augurs well.

- For what?

Why, our great friendship, of course.

Tell me. Do you like the poetry of Byron?

Oh, yes. Perhaps too well.

Then already we have something in common.

Get your hot pies here!

I hope you will accept this

as a token of affection from a friend.

Byron's Don Juan.

Oh, Miss Lister, thank you!

- I've written in it.

- Get your hot pies!

''To fair Callista.''

What does it mean?

It derives from the Greek

for ''most beautiful''.

Oh, you have a romantic nature.

I admire that.

I find a slight tincture of romance

in a character

makes one more agreeable, don't you think?

Oh, yes, most definitely.

Though with your manners and kind attentions,

I can't help wishing you were a gent.

Wish away.

Isn't that Miss Lister?

We rarely see you these days, Miss Lister.

I am devoting myself to my studies.

Greek and Latin, mostly.

To what purpose?

Well, my only pleasure

is employing myself profitably.

Only pleasure?

It seems you make an exception

for Miss Browne.

Ah, well, I walk with her occasionally.

She's interesting,

and gentle with her manners.

I understand her father's in trade.

How did you come to know such a girl?.

We scraped an acquaintance at church.

Can you name your sentiment

for her, Miss Lister?

Perfect esteem.

You're an odd one, Anne.

I always tell people you're natural,

the most natural person I know.

But that Nature was in an odd freak

when it made you.

That is fair.

I always consult my...inclination.

I find cultivating

a complimentary strain with ladies

makes life more agreeable to us all.

Er, oh... Why, Mrs Rawson,

I was meaning to say how the...

the curl of your hair today, it's...

well, it's most complimentary to your face.

Oh...

Anne?

Oh!

A letter for me?

From Miss Norcliffe, I believe.

Why do you persist

in such manly pursuits, Anne?

Pistol is not becoming to a lady.

- Tib's coming to visit.

- Oh. Right.

Give... Give me that.

Only if you name your sentiment

for me, Anne.

Give it to me, Tib, or you can leave now.

Oh, don't get in a pother.

I couldn't understand half of it.

You obviously put the interesting bits in code.

Bits about Mariana.

She's of no concern to me.

So you don't want to know

I saw her sisters last week in York?

And?

All goes swimmingly.

Apparently Mariana's quite taken to Cheshire

and her big house

and her choice of carriages

and all the finery money can buy.

Then let her stay there.

- Has she written?

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Jane English

Jane English (was born 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a philosopher, physicist, photographer, journalist and translator. English received her B.A. in Physics from Mount Holyoke College in 1964 and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison for her work in high energy particle physics. She taught courses in Oriental thought and modern physics at Colorado College.English is known for her collaborative translation of the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tsu which she illustrated through photography, in collaboration with her spouse Gia-Fu Feng. more…

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