In the Footsteps of 
Anne Lister

Anne Lister: Nineteenth-century traveller. Mistress of Shibden Hall, Halifax. Prolific diarist, non-conformist, insatiably curious, a true adventuress.

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Adeline Lim has spent two years chasing Anne Lister across the European continent. Criss-crossing from Ghent to Cologne, Strasbourg to Milan, Venice to Lausanne, Dinant to Lucerne, Adeline has pitted herself tirelessly against all Anne experienced. Medieval cities, tremendous mountains, verdant landscapes, cobalt blue lakes, savage gorges, the Rhine, the Rhône, Adeline has seen them all.

 

The result is a dazzling account of Anne Lister's travels through Belgium and Germany's Rhine in 1829 and is the ultimate guide to her tour of Italy and Switzerland in 1827.

 

Become immersed in Anne's adventures and travel back in time through extracts of her diary, travel journals and letters - it is mesmerising.

 

This book contains never before published excerpts of Anne Lister’s journals and letters from 1826, 1827 and 1829, maps of Anne’s travels and appendices listing all the villages and cities Anne travelled through or visited in Belgium, Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy.

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