'A will by the 'first modern lesbian'; queer icon Anne Lister is to go up for sale. Lister, who was the subject of this year's well received BBC drama The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, died in 1840 having lived an openly lesbian lifestyle for many years - almost unheard of in the nineteenth century'
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