Dorjana Širola

#AnneListerCodeBreaker 🏳️‍🌈 🇭🇷

[Packed With Potential @PackedWith]

In 1830, #AnneLister toured France with Lady Stuart de Rothesay & her daughters.

You can now explore this trip in Julie Gonnet's (@AnneListerParis) new map!
https://t.co/5hBne3AVqf

#travel #19thcentury #researcher

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

17th August 1838
"Hail! all hail my journal! thou kind beguiler of many an irksome thought and many a solitary hour — thou friend of old! thou faithful mentor that hast calmed alike the burst of joy and grief, and taught my soul to hoard its best resources far from the reach of human grasp!"

#AnneLister
#womenwriters
#journal
#19thcentury

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

ANNE LISTER and ANN WALKER - one of 1st women mountaineers in the 19th century

Some of #AnneLister's mountaineering expeditions :

15th July 1822 - Snowdon or Yr Wyddfa (in Wales) with Aunt Anne ~ 1,085m

17th June 1823 - Ingleborough (in Yorkshire Dales) ~ 723m
(for a long time considered the highest mountain in England)

15th July 1828 - Ben Nevis (in Scotland) ~ 1,345m

19th August 1830 - Pic de Bergons (in the French Pyrenees) ~ 2,068m

26th August 1830 - Monte Perdido or Mont Perdu (the peak is in the Spanish part of the Pyrenees) ~ 3,355m

16th July 1834 - Le Brévent (in the French Alps) with Ann Walker ~ 2,525 m

16th August 1834 - Puy de Dôme (in the French Massif Central) with servant George (Joseph Booth) ~ 1,465m

12th July 1838 - Pic de Bergons (in the French Pyrenees) with Ann Walker ~ 2,068m

24th July 1838 - the Petit Pic d'Ossau with Ann Walker ~ 2,807m, and with the guides the Grand Pic d'Ossau ~ 2,884m on the same day in the French Pyrenees

7th August 1838 - Vignemale ~ 3, 298m, the 1st official summit of the mountain peak, which is split between France and Spain

18th September 1838 - Pic du Midi de Bigorre (in the French Pyrenees) with Ann Walker ~ 2,877m

21st September 1838 - Pic du Midi d'Ossau (in the French Pyrenees) with Ann Walker ~ 2,884m

#womenmountaineers
#womenhikers
#history
#19thcentury

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

Richard Brinsley Sheridan's theatre play The School for Scandal just started performing while we were in Dubrovnik so we decided to go and see it in a beautiful ambient of Fort Lovrijenac.
Styled as a comedy of manners, the play was 1st performed in 1777, and portrays idle-rich gossipmongers of Georgian society everso interested and invested in creating and sharing the intrigues and scandals of their quasi-moral socialite peers. Satyrical and comedic consequences arise when the same sharp point turns to those same subjects thus producing a dramatic catharsis.
Of course, the author's life heavily resembles the lives of his characters.

I had a feeling #AnneLister was somewhere close to this topic and really, she did hear of the play, and probably read the book she bought on the recommendation of Madame Galvani.

14th December 1826
"thence to Amyot (bookseller) rue de la Paix — he had not received English almanacks — bought an 18mo [octodecimo] copy of Sheridan’s School for Scandal (printed for Baudry, Paris, 1822) which Madame Galvani sometime since advised me to translate into French — told the man I must have an allowance of 10 per cent, and he returned me 2 sols out of a franc"

Credits:
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#Dubrovnik
#Croatia

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

News from Facebook from West Yorkshire Archives:

The diary of Anne Lister [Senior], affectionately known as Aunt Anne, is now available to read on our online catalogue!

https://t.co/VD69PaKNuK

Read all about Anne's time in Paris and get a glimpse into her life during this time.

WYAS would like to thank Barbara Jessop and Sherridan Crompton for providing the transcription of this diary and for their work in making this possible.

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

23rd July 1822
https://t.co/4YBx5GxLLT

I can't choose a favorite detail from this one special day from #AnneLister's journal.
The vivid description of Lady Sarah Ponsonby; the talk with her about the books, the library and knowledge of classical literature; Anne explaining her own family circumstances; the fondness between the Ladies "who never quarelled" or the rose and geranium Anne left with to take back home make this entry one of my favorites in the entire diary corpus.

I was fascinated with wooden gothic carvings with which #LadiesofLlangollen themselves covered the interior walls and doors and set up a highly decorated porch to #PlasNewydd in 1814 - and which Anne doesn't mention at all!
Black half-timbering on the exterior walls was put up much later by General John Yorke, owner of the house until 1890.
#Llangollen
#Wales

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

3rd August 1822
"Tell me if you think their regard has always been platonic and if you ever believed pure friendship could be so exalted if you do I shall think there are brighter gems amongst mortals than I ever believed there were

... §id I cannot help thinking that surely it was not platonic heaven forgive me but I look within myself and doubt I feel the infirmity of our nature and hesitate to pronounce such attachment uncemented by something more tender still than friendship but much or all depends upon the story of their former lives the period that passed before they lived together that feverish dream called youth"

#AnneLister was so delighted with her visit to Plas Newydd and her private conversation with Miss Sarah Ponsonby that she questioned the true nature of relationship between the Ladies of Llangollen.
Ever since I've read these extracts from Anne Lister's journal I wanted to visit.
My wish is soon to come true.

#LadiesofLlangollen
#Wales

[In Search of Ann Walker @SearchingForAnn]

Today is not only Ann Walker's birthday, it's also the 5th anniversary of In Search Of Ann Walker being formed.

Thank you everyone for following us across social media and being supportive.

We look forward to the next five years of researching Ann!

[Dorjana Širola @d_sirola]

This scene is clearly based on this entry:

https://t.co/M8feaCkTx2

However, "the man's cabaret" where Anne cleaned herself up is not at all "the men's cabinet". It's a small tavern belonging to the man at whose place they stopped to adjust the harness.

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

3rd August 1835
"at Leicester at 7 40/.. Bell Inn, might be comfortable enough but nobody seems prepared for gentry gentlewomen at least alighting from the Hope coach - the chambermaid too slow for us to wait for towels - ordered fruit - they sent out for gooseberries and red currants which just came before the horn blew - we put our fruit into our basket and were off again at 8 the servants having had tea"

#AnneLister and #AnnWalker briefly stopped in #Leicester on their way to London.
The Bell Hotel, one of the most famous coaching inns in the town, was destroyed in the 1970s to build a shopping centre.
I am, though, amazed at what can survive the harshness of times passing by.
https://t.co/0ZIIyIhNRv

[ALBW @ALBW20201]

Nearly forty years ago, Helena Whitbread, facing enormous obstacles, brought a de-coded Anne Lister into the world, an act that has changed countless lives. This hero is not done yet! Join me for this very special conversation—and hear what’s next! Link posted next Friday

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

24th February 1827
"Might have been ready to go out at 8, but turned to my atlas — noted down all the counties in England, Wales and Scotland — all the cathedrals in England and Wales I had seen and all I had to see "

#AnneLister

I have the same plans 😛
cathedrals on the photos all visited by Miss Lister and by me.

1) Canterbury cathedral
2) Peterborough cathedral
3) Durham cathedral
4) Carlisle cathedral

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

6th December 1837
"2 swans 1st seen on the Meer this morning strayed from somewhere"

#AnneLister
#ShibdenHall
#Meer

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

2nd March 1837
"coffee about 8 1/2 — read tonight’s paper — from 10 to 12 had Oddy helping me to get from out of the library passage and put into the great oak chest in the upper kitchen almost all the books of the 2 first (a history and biography) compartments counting from my study door to the stove — catalogued about 2/3 of the 1st compartment but this too tedious, and put the 2nd compartment apart in the chest to be catalogued
by and by"

#AnneLister as a librarian
#ShibdenHall

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

5th August 1826
"Dinner about 6 20/60 — afterwards went into the saloon — played the hand organ — had Watson in to turn for us while M- [Mariana] and I danced in remembrance of former times to the tune of Smith’s hornpipe, and then I sang ‘Early days how fair and fleeting’ ‘In thee I take so dear a part’, ‘I dreampt my heart was laid one day’ etc. — tea at 9"

One of #AnneLister 's journal entries showing us how much she loved music, playing the instruments, dancing and singing.

Barrel organ or hand organ is a type of musical instrument which is played with turning the crank by a human or a monkey, releasing a pre-set melody.
https://t.co/NIsRpsTKe3

We can hear Sir Sidney Smith's Hornpipe tune and see the accompanying dance moves thanks to this website:

https://t.co/HhBWkmbum0

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

#otd 31st October 1837
"about 4 1/2 p.m. A- [Ann] and I and the servants all saw Mrs. Graham in her balloon (was to ascend at 3 p.m. from the Piece hall) over Hipperholm — might be 400 or 500 yards high? the parachute like a black speck"

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Photo credits: https://t.co/zJ9j8Q1KVw.

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

10th March 1819
"Mrs W [Waterhouse] thinks me ver[y] odd and asked if it was owing to education I said no I had not begun the sort of education she meant till my native character was ssufficiently developed I was fifteen when I first went to Mr Knight was always a great pickle never learnt anything at school was always talking to the girls instead of attending to my book talked a little of my being whipped every day at Ripon"

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12th May 1832
"then after being some time downstairs inquiring the distance from here to Darlington wrote in about 1/2 hour 3 ppages to Mrs. James Dalton to go tomorrow to fix being at Croft to tea at 8 or 9 on Tuesday evening the 22nd instant — meaning to sleep on the road for the sake of lionizing at Harrogate and Knaresborough and growing young again at Ripon where I had spent my years from 7 to 9 amid all the little joys and sorrows of school day innocence"

I'll finish this little tour of Ripon with 2 of #AnneLister's quotes on her times in Ripon, both quite vivid and poetical.

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

22nd May 1832
"then walked towards the canal — all hereabouts that used to be open and belong to the town, enclosed by means of the late Mr. Allanson, who bought and gave land in exchange for Ailsa hill and walled it off and shrubbed and planted it — to me looked better wild and open — a civil sort of woman I had picked up walked about with me — the present dean, Webbe, unpopular because making a fuss about the small tithes"
#AnneLister

Ripon canal, designed by John Smeaton (1724-1792) and built by William Jessop (1734-1814), was opened in 1773, with 3 locks and the length of only 2.3 miles before it joins river Ure in the south.
The canal basin stretches to the centre of the town and was renovated and opened in 1996, since being abandoned from 1956.
https://t.co/j1vI4tlvdJ

Charles Allanson (1720–1775) was a politician and MP for Ripon 1768-1775.
Ailey (or Ailcy) hill is a large mound that was used as an early medieval burial site, and where a hoard of Saxon coins was found during excavations.
James Webber (1772 – 1847) was Dean of Ripon from 1828 until his death.

[In Search of Ann Walker @SearchingForAnn]

4 years ago today, a diary of #AnnWalker was found at @wyorksarchives by ISAW, hidden in plain sight in the Rawson Collection - the only one found to date

A delightful journal - it tells us Ann called Lister "dearest" & gives an insight into Ann's world through her own words 1/4

[Ivana Nika 🇭🇷 @Ivana_Nika]

22nd May 1832
"Minster under repair — quite plain within — not an atom of painted glass — very few monuments — a little York, but transept windows lancet-arched, and towers very squat and low"

#AnneLister visits Ripon Cathedral, until 1836 known as Ripon Minster, founded by Saint Wilfrid in 672AD who is buried in the nave.
Its beautiful lancet windows in the transept are a fine example of Early English gothic from the 13th century, when the 3rd church was built in the same place.
Besides the 2 twin towers, there is also a central tower of the same height.
Most of the painted glass was installed during Victorian times, and it takes some time to read through most of the tablets on the walls of the Cathedral to realize that the observation "very few monuments" in the Cathedral in 1832 might be correct. Although there are a few statues and tombs scattered inside.
#NorthYorkshire