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She wasn’t the biggest fan of the area when she was growing up there in the 1970s and 80s.
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This sideswipe may stem back to Wainwright’s own formative years in West Yorkshire. She was intelligent, single-minded and “uncompromisingly gay – it was a huge part of who she was, a huge part of how courageous she was, living that life not just at that time, but in Halifax, where you still can’t really be gay. Part of Lister’s appeal, says Wainwright, is that she is “an atypical historical character”. “I got slated for that – apparently, all lesbians die in telly, which I just didn’t know.” I mean, she will die eventually.” Wainwright still feels bad about killing off Kate in Last Tango in Halifax. She didn’t die at the end – she got her big romantic reconciliation. Overturning two centuries of erasure is no small achievement, but the other thing viewers liked, Wainwright thinks, “is that her story was so life-affirming, uplifting and clever. The University of York has named a college after her, while Halifax has put up a statue. It started as a weekend and has now ballooned into a fortnight-long event. One American woman has launched an Anne Lister festival in Halifax. “My mum was agoraphobic, so I know what it’s like.” “That really touched me,” says Wainwright. One woman had been housebound with agoraphobia – but after watching it, gathered the courage to walk to the shop for the first time in years. Wainwright has had letters from women all over the world who’d never heard of Lister and now “she’s become the most important thing in their lives”.
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So marked was the drama’s impact that the BBC isn’t just bringing it back, it’s also making a documentary about the “Gentleman Jack effect”. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The GuardianĬlearly, she succeeded.