“Saturday 12 July 1823 [Halifax] Could not sleep last night. Dozing, hot & disturbed ... a violent longing for a female companion came over me. Never remember feeling it so painfully before ... It was absolute pain to me.” LoveSexGlbt Author:Anne Lister
“It is heavy work to live without women's society & I would for rather while away an hour with this girl, who has nothing in the world to boast but good humor, than not flirt at all.” LgbtLesbianSapphicLesbianismSapphism Book:I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840 Source: I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840
“She is my wife in honor & in love & why not acknowledge her such openly & at once? I am satisfied to have her mind, & my on, at ease. The chain is golden & shared with M---. I love it better than any liberty.” LgbtLesbianSapphicLesbianismSapphism Book:I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840 Source: I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840