Estate Planning for Same-Sex Couples in the 1830s?

For reals? You betcha, but more hurdles were found back then.

Anne Lister’s life as a lesbian landowner in the 19th Century was captured in the HBO series “Gentleman Jack” from 2019-2022 (https://lnkd.in/gVaZ2g5W) and reported by Smithsonian InstitutionMagazine (https://lnkd.in/gKUvRYuR)

To more deeply understand her life #planning considerations, Joanne M. Burda published (2022) in the Journal of Lesbian Studies Lister's #estateplanning tools in her consideration of care for her #property as well as for her life #partner, Ann Walker. 

Lister’s plan included turning the family #estate in her lifetime into a public #museum and to protect access to the home for Walker for the remainder of her life, who inherited caretaking ownership of historic Shibden Hall (https://lnkd.in/gQrPg-XH).  

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Photo credit: HBO.