Gentleman Jack - Story of Anne Lister and Ann Walker
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What happens when a 19th century reborn, low-society Xena meets with the slightly upper-crust British society and has frigid dealings with Anne, aka Gentleman Jack?
I know cross-overs may not be popular, but I am trying to blend the two into an interesting saga mostly relying on Gentleman Jack series vs Xena.
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Ann Walker only caught brief glimpses of Anne Lister before having her all to herself. These are two flashbacks and an addition to the reunion scene that let us share in those glimpses.
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Birmingham 1919.
Anne Lister, unlikely head of the notorious Lister family of Birmingham, is in her prime running her thriving family business Lister Company Limited. It is in the fog shrouded morning of Small Heath's cobbled streets, that she meets the enticing new barmaid at The Garrison Pub, Ann Walker.
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An unexpected holiday invitation from Mariana Lawton puts Anne Lister and Ann Walker's new marriage to its first true test. Based on actual events from the diaries. (Multi-chapter).
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Detective Ann(e)s, basically.
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Ann observes – studies her.
The mystery woman grabs one book from the shelf and fingers through it quickly. Even from the short distance, Ann can see her hands are strong yet feminine, a professional shade of dark red polish on her short, manicured nails. She presses one lightly against the binding as she reads – impatient yet focused – and Ann watches every tap and twitch of them as they slide along the book's spine.
“We share a name.”
“Do we? Well imagine that."
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In 1919, after having (accidentally) shoved one of her tenants into a wall and (not so accidentally) tried to run off to join the Air Force, Anne Lister is invited to leave the Shibden estate.
With few options left for her in Britain, Miss Lister travels to New York, on the journey meeting a fellow Englishwoman - the wealthy heiress, Ann Walker, sent to the US in the hope of finding a doctor who can cure her seemingly endless aches and pains.
However, Miss Walker’s troubles are quickly attributed to ‘lack of the vote’ by the enigmatic, (and maybe rather snobbish) Miss Lister, (suffering occasionally from the same kind of pain) who puts herself immediately to work curing her friend of both her physical ailments and a lifelong loneliness.
Get ready for glamour, gangsters, new money and, of course, a budding forbidden romance as Anne juggles rescuing an oil company with securing the hand of the love of her life.
(Or, the one where Anne Lister was born a century later and had more of a chance.)
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"Anne breathed in her scent- citrus and soap. She smirked to herself as she thumbed through her book, more focused on the way the woman’s small hands twisted nervously in her hair, legs bouncing, than the words on the page. No ring, she mused, eventually giving up and closing the book. Anne noted a small rainbow flag was pinned to the backpack that she had pushed under the seat in front of her. A smile crept across Anne’s face and she leaned her head back into her seat. She didn’t usually feel so pulled to strangers, but the way this girl bit her lip as she lifted her perfectly sculpted neck to look around...Anne felt undone."
OR The one where Anne and Ann meet on an airplane.
TW: Ann struggles heavily with anxiety and depression.
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Ann observes – studies her.
The mystery woman grabs one book from the shelf and fingers through it quickly. Even from the short distance, Ann can see her hands are strong yet feminine, a professional shade of dark red polish on her short, manicured nails. She presses one lightly against the binding as she reads – impatient yet focused – and Ann watches every tap and twitch of them as they slide along the book's spine.
“We share a name.”
“Do we? Well imagine that."