Her observations include extended personal interactions with her tenants and local artisans engineering calculations, legal issues, and coal pit development at Shibden Hall gentry responses to industrialization and the political unrest it triggered assessments of contemporary advances in geology, landscape design, and anatomy theological reflection medical opinions and analysis of her own health forensic descriptions of cities, landscapes, and cultures across her many travels and years abroad a meticulous record of the morning and evening temperatures and practical accounts of summiting two of the highest peaks in the Pyrenees (she was the first woman recorded to scale Mont Perdu, and she made the first recorded ascent of the Vignemale).

Miraculously, all 24 of these continuous volumes survive. On 21 March 1817, Anne Lister raised the stakes of her writing, quoting historian Edward Gibbon on her flyleaf to propose вЂњfrom this day to keep an exact journal of my actions and studies.вЂќ With that, she commenced her use of the larger format, bound volumes that she would maintain, increasing the length and detail of her entries, until her death in 1840. Given that two smaller, bound notebooks from 1816-17 do survive, Anne Lister was surely writing journals (now lost) in the period up to 1817. Some appear to be rough drafts for inscription in a volume. Prompted by the departure of her first love, it begins, вЂњEliza left us.вЂќ From then until 1816, only loose diary sheets are preserved. Anne ListerвЂ™s earliest diary entry was written on 11 August 1806, when she was 15. She set herself an ambitious program of reading and learning and soon began to manage and to renovate the estate, inheriting her uncleвЂ™s share in 1826 and finally becoming its sole owner on the death of her beloved Aunt Anne in 1836. Alumni Publications ExpandAlumni Publications SubmenuД«orn in 1791 in Halifax, Anne Lister twice briefly attended boarding schools before moving, in 1815, to live with her aunt and uncle at Shibden Hall, a West Yorkshire manor house dating from about 1420.Teaching Awards ExpandTeaching Awards Submenu.English Department Prizes (formerly TriQuarterly Prizes).Harriet Gilliam Memorial Prize For best essay on Psychological interpretation of a literary text.Scott Clark Award for Outstanding Aptitude in Creative Writing Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The American Academy of Poets.Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper.Annual Writing Competition ExpandAnnual Writing Competition Submenu.Awards & Publications ExpandAwards & Publications Submenu.English Graduate Student Organization ExpandEnglish Graduate Student Organization Submenu.Graduate Fellowships ExpandGraduate Fellowships Submenu.PhD in Literature ExpandPhD in Literature Submenu.MA in Literature ExpandMA in Literature Submenu.Litowitz MFA+MA Program ExpandLitowitz MFA+MA Program Submenu.Graduate Admissions ExpandGraduate Admissions Submenu.Creative Writing ExpandCreative Writing Submenu.Honors in Literature ExpandHonors in Literature Submenu.Undergraduate ExpandUndergraduate Submenu.Department Colloquia ExpandDepartment Colloquia Submenu.

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