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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister full movie is released on May 31, 2010. Watch The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister online - the English Biography movie from United Kingdom. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister is directed by James Kent and created by Jane English with Maxine Peake and Anna Madeley.
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....