A Skirt Through History Season 1, Episode 2: A Lady's Portion

A Marriage

Anne Lister, an outwardly conventional gentlewoman living in Halifax at the beginning of the last century, had a secret life that would have shocked local society. Her diaries, written in such a complex code that they were not deciphered until the 1980s, reveal that she was really a lesbian Don Juan.

An Experiment

The Wreckers

A Reputation

The Two Marys