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Jill Liddington (born in
Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
, 1946) is a British writer and academic who specialises in
women's history Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman's rights throughout recorded history, personal achievement over a period of ...
.


Life

In 1974 she returned to Manchester and worked in the media before becoming a teacher in adult education. She joined the Department of External Studies at
Leeds University , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...
in 1982 and became a Reader in Gender History, School of Continuing Education, until her transfer to the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, where she is currently Honorary Research Fellow. Liddington's book, ''Long Road to Greenham'' won the Fawcett Book Prize in 1990. Her ''Rebel Girls'' was short-listed for the Portico Book Prize, 2008. Liddington stood as a Labour Party candidate in the
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ward in the Calderdale Council election, 2004 - largely to prevent more BNP councillors being elected. Liddington's book ''Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority'' was chosen by feminist and TV writer
Sally Wainwright Sally Anne Wainwright (born 1963) is an English television writer, producer, and director from Yorkshire. Early in her career, Wainwright worked as a playwright, and as a scriptwriter on the long-running radio serial drama ''The Archers''. In t ...
as the book she would want with her to read if she was ever trapped on a desert island.Sally Wainwright Desert Island Discs
BBC Radio 4, 5 October 2014 broadcast Wainwright subsequently developed a historical TV drama series, '' Gentleman Jack'', as a BBC-HBO production which aired in spring 2019 and depicts the life of Victorian landowner
Anne Lister Anne Lister (3 April 1791 – 22 September 1840) was an English diarist, famous for revelations for which she was dubbed "the first modern lesbian". Lister was from a minor landowning family at Shibden in Calderdale, West Riding of Yorkshire ...
, as “the first modern lesbian”. The end credits acknowledge that the drama was “inspired by the books ''Female Fortune'' and ''Nature’s Domain'' by Jill Liddington”, whose own website declares: “Ever since her death in 1840, Anne Lister of
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has exerted a magnetic attraction... The most powerful magnet remains her daily diaries. These run to no fewer than four million words, much of it written in her own secret code. Anne Lister’s code was not cracked till fifty years after her death. I remained hooked by Anne’s extraordinary life: dazzling worldly achievements plus unbuttoned lesbian affairs.”


Publications

* Liddington, J.; Norris, Jill (1978) ''One Hand Tied Behind Us: the rise of the women's suffrage movement,'' Virago Press . * Liddington, J. (1989) ''The Long Road to Greenham: feminism and anti-militarism in Britain since 1820,'' Virago Press. * Liddington, J. (1994) ''Presenting the Past: Anne Lister of Halifax 1791-1840,'' Pennine Pens. * Liddington, J. (1998) ''Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority: the Anne Lister diaries 1833-36,'' Rivers Oram Press. * Liddington, J. (2006) ''Rebel Girls: their fight for the vote,''
Virago Press Virago is a British publisher of women's writing and books on Feminism, feminist topics. Started and run by women in the 1970s and bolstered by the success of the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM), Virago has been credited as one of several Briti ...
. * Liddington, J. (2014) ''Vanishing for the Vote: suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census''; with Gazetteer of campaigners compiled by Elizabeth Crawford and Jill Liddington.
Manchester University Press Manchester University Press is the university press of the University of Manchester, England and a publisher of academic books and journals. Manchester University Press has developed into an international publisher. It maintains its links with th ...
(ebook).


See also

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Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom A movement to fight for women's right to vote in the United Kingdom finally succeeded through acts of Parliament in 1918 and 1928. It became a national movement in the Victorian era. Women were not explicitly banned from voting in Great Britai ...
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Women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vot ...
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History of feminism The history of feminism comprises the narratives (chronological or thematic) of the movements and ideologies which have aimed at equal rights for women. While feminists around the world have differed in causes, goals, and intentions depending ...


Notes


References

* Liddington, Jill. ''The Long Road to Greenham: Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820''. London: Virago, 1989. .


External links


Jill Liddington's website

Jill Liddington
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Gender Studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...
,
University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...
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