Jill Liddington
British academic
Jill Liddington (born in Manchester, 1946) is a British writer and academic who specialises in women's history.
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 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 Society Book Prize in 1990. Her Rebel Girls was shortlisted for the Portico Book Prize, 2008.
Liddington stood as a Labour Party candidate in the Sowerby Bridge 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 as the book she would want with her to read if she was ever trapped on a desert island. 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, 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 Shibden Hall has exerted a magnetic attraction... The most powerful magnet remains her daily diaries.
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