The BBC One and HBO co-produced 8-episode series Jack Gentleman Jack (formerly Known as Shibden Hall) was run by Sally Wainwright and premiered in 2019. Since its launch, there have been super high views on the BBC iPlayer. Not only is it loved by the British people, but even the score on Douban is as high as 9.1 points, and there are countless fans around the world!

Today I will give you a detailed introduction, and I will definitely not be disappointed...

For everyone to enjoy slowly

<h1>Gentleman Jack</h1>

<h1>Character archetype introduction</h1>

"Jack Gentleman" is based on the real character Anne Lister, and the entire story is based on this character, who is a real historical figure, the first modern lesbian in Britain. She is also a Yorkshire landowner, entrepreneur, traveler and essayist. In 1832 Halifax, Anne Lister (Suranne Jones), known locally as Jack Gentleman Jack, was a wealthy landowner, a diaryist, traveler, and a consciously open lesbian, Anne Lister, known as the first lesbian in modern times. More than 200 years ago, when gay men were still legally convicted and lesbians were little known, she wrote in her diary: "I only love women. She will be depicted in the play about her relationships with her family, servants, tenants, business rivals, and gay man Ann Walker.

Anne Liszt's diary

What made Anne Lister so famous was her diary. Anne Lister made up a code of numbers, symbols, and letters, and one-sixth of the 4 million-word diary was hidden behind the code, telling about her sexual relationships with many lovers. She began to write a diary from her adolescence until her death at the age of 49, leaving a total of 26 diaries, 14 travelogues, a total of more than 5 million words, and recorded her daily life, emotional experiences and travels in great detail.

However, these are not ordinary diaries, and one-sixth of them are written in passwords. The diary has experienced more than 100 years from its discovery to its publication.

In 2010, there was a film based on Anne's "Anne Liszt's Secret Diary", which is 90 minutes long and can present limited details. So in 2019, HBO+BBC launched this new "Gentleman Jack", teaching love secrets by hand.

<h1>Synopsis</h1>

This costumed lily film tells the love story of Anne Lister, the first woman in British history to come out in public, and her wife, Ann Walker. Living in the 19th century, Liszt behaved in a way that was incompatible with the world, she was a wealthy landlord, engaged in the coal mining business, dressed masculine, liked to travel everywhere, wrote a diary in code language, and was constantly connected between different female partners, and did not shy away from saying that she only loved women. People looked at her differently, calling her Gentleman Jack.

Stills of Gentleman Jack

The heroine, Anne Liszt, is a "president" who owns large tracts of land, houses, farmland and mines. I thought it was a gentle and quiet Miss Qianjin from a landlord class family, but this grandfather's painting style was different.

Wearing a trench coat and hat, holding a pocket watch cane, full of aggression. Not limited to traditional etiquette, dare to ride a carriage with a group of big masters. So the Yorkshire native nicknamed Anne Gentleman Jack. Such a cool female landlord loves to learn and travel. You love her all (woohoo, so a burst Anne, I can).

Such a spontaneous, eclectic, eloquent and humorous Anne deeply attracted the ladies of high society who were bound by various etiquette in the boudoir. In addition, Anne is also an old driver, so she has had many lovers.

Although Anne's lovers admired Anne, they were afraid of the eyes of the world, and only dared to maintain an underground love affair, and advised Annie to find a man as her support as soon as possible. Independent-minded Anne, on the other hand, refused to cling to men and wanted pure feelings to spend her life with the people she loved.

At this time, Anne Lister's life partner, Ann Walker, reappeared in her life trajectory. Walker, 29, is an introverted woman who is the heiress of a large mansion nearby.

Later, Anne met her true love for the rest of her life, Miss Ann Walker. Walker, who inherited the family property, is also a president but more like a silly and sweet Miss Qianjin. Walker fell in love with Anne at first sight, and as soon as the two met, she shyly did not dare to open her mouth, but just looked at Annie foolishly and listened quietly to her opinion on the property bill.

Miss White Fumei Walker, who is sickly and sensitive and fragile, although she has inherited a large inheritance, but is surrounded by various relatives who covet her property and troublesome friends, and the appearance of the coal boss brings sunshine to her life.

Anne, who originally planned to go to the United States to work hard, began to consider whether to stay in Britain for her after the two met. (Aaaah, the double arrow is also too sweet)

Like her previous lovers, Walker's possessions were a big attraction to Anne Liszt. She wrote in her diary: "She didn't know what I was thinking in her dreams. She has money, which may make up for the lack of social status. We've gotten along so far. ”

"I really felt in love with her in the chalet. Perhaps through the vicissitudes, she will give me happiness and joy more than the previous people who have moved my heart. ”

Two months after the reunion, Anne Lister expressed her desire to live together to Ann Walker. At this time, Walker was very confused about this same-sex relationship, so he asked her to give her half a year to consider it.

Half a year later, Walker is still undecided. Anne Lister also began to have doubts about the relationship, so she left Halifax and went to Paris.

A few months later, when she returned, Walker had pushed aside a family affair, showing that she was determined to live with Anne Walker.

The coal boss's lovers basically eventually choose to marry and have children as ordinary people, and only Miss Ann Walker, who seems weak and cowardly, bravely decides to marry the coal boss and live with the coal boss as a real partner.

The love between the coal boss and Walker has experienced many twists and turns, and the guilt of Walker in the play has been shaken several times because of the gossip and religious concepts of the people around him, and his own mental breakdown has also made the coal boss who loves her feel desperate. Walker had seen herself and the coal boss being pushed to the gallows in a nightmare, but even in that dream, the coal boss she saw was still smiling, and the scars and dust could not hide her calm demeanor, which made people feel very at ease.

The two women each revised their wills and exchanged rings. On the Sunday of Easter in 1834, they both went to holy trinity Church in York to receive communion. In their view, this "marriage" was stamped and registered.

After marriage, the two spent 3 months of honeymoons in France and Switzerland. After returning to Halifax, Ann Walker moved much of her furniture to the Hibiton Mansion and started a new life.

The two women's determination to live together became not only an after-dinner conversation in Yorkshire, but also a public ridicule and a malicious anonymous letter. A leeds tabloid newspaper carried an advertisement satirizing them, announcing that Colonel Liszt of "Hibiton" and Miss Ann Walker were "married"; they also received a letter to "Colonel Liszt" congratulating the newlyweds on their association.

Anne Liszt wrote in her diary: "These may be deliberately angry with me, and if you really want to make me angry, it must be in vain." ”

In the years after their marriage, the two traveled to many countries, climbing mountains in France and wintering in Russia.

In the summer of 1840, they came to Kutaisi, the caucasus mountains' third-largest city in Georgia. On August 11, 1840, Liszt wrote his last diary. Six weeks later, Liszt died of a high fever caused by a bug bite.

The weak Walker took Liszt's coffin and traveled more than 7,000 kilometers for 8 months, and finally brought the bones of his lover back to his hometown in Britain. According to Liszt's will, Walker could continue to live in Hibiton, but her relatives thought she was mentally ill and arranged for doctors and lawyers. The police broke through the door.

At that point, Walker locked himself in a dimly lit room in Hibiton, next to which documents were piled up and a pistol with loaded bullets. She was sent to a mental hospital in York, where Liszt's first teenage lover, Eliza, recovered.

Today, outside the Holy Trinity Church in York, where Liszt and Volcker "pledged the sea of mountains and seas", a rainbow nameplate is hung to commemorate their "wedding" in 1834.

With the popularity of the BBC drama "Gentleman Jack", more and more people have learned more about Anne Liszt's life and experience. The number of visitors to Hibiton from the UK and the US also soared by 700%.

Anne Lister 200 years ago, physically strong, energetic, maverick, self-contained, eccentric, quick thinking, erudite, adventurous and independent, fierce, dare to hate and dare to love, she is certainly not a woman who is loved by everyone.

Sally Wainwright, writer, producer and director of "Gentleman Jack," had this to say about Anne Lister:

"She has a very healthy sense of her own worth. She can give us some inspiration. ”

Plot reviews

The biggest attraction of this drama is to see how Anne, the old driver, pounced on the innocent and pure Walker little white rabbit. And their firm love guard does not easily compromise because of the world.

In addition, please write down the small book, Anne's every sister operation is the focus of the exam, to take the test, by the way, reflect on why you are still a single dog, learn more essence, get off the list as soon as possible.