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Last will and testament of Anne Lister

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Thirteen manuscript legal documents relating to the estate and property of Anne Lister and her family

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Title
Last will and testament of Anne Lister
Names
Lister, Anne, 1791-1840 (Author)
Collection

Thirteen manuscript legal documents relating to the estate and property of Anne Lister and her family

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1836-05-09
Library locations
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Shelf locator: Pforz MS (MISC 4150a)
Topics
Lister, Anne, 1791-1840 -- Estate
Walker, Ann, 1803-1854
Legal documents -- Great Britain -- 19th century
Halifax (England)
Lister, Anne, 1791-1840
Genres
Documents
Manuscripts
Wills
Notes
Biographical/historical: The Lister family was one of the chief landowning families of Halifax, England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Anne Lister, best known for her coded diaries, moved in 1815 to Shibden Hall in West Yorkshire to live with her aunt and uncle. From 1834, she lived there with her lover, Ann Walker. Upon her death in 1840, Lister left Walker a lifetime interest in Shibden Hall; years later Walker was forcibly removed after being deemed insane. After Walker's death the estate passed to Lister's cousin, John Lister, who later served as the first national treasurer of the Independent Labour Party.
Content: Found In: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
Content: Including three codicils; ink on 5 folded sheets of parchment, along with printed probate form, filled out in ink.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19337554
MSS Unit ID: 23719
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ed5d9640-eaf4-0138-0c0f-0242ac110004
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Item timeline of events

  • 1791: Creator Born
  • 1836: Created
  • 1840: Creator Died
  • 2021: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Last will and testament of Anne Lister" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1836. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cf303040-fedd-0139-4bfa-0242ac110002

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Last will and testament of Anne Lister" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cf303040-fedd-0139-4bfa-0242ac110002

APA Format

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. (1836). Last will and testament of Anne Lister Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cf303040-fedd-0139-4bfa-0242ac110002

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Last will and testament of Anne Lister