Daily Junction.mobi portal<p>Between 2019 and 2022, the television series <a href="https://theconversation.com/five-lesbian-expressions-from-the-19th-century-to-remember-when-watching-gentleman-jack-184267">Gentleman Jack</a> portrayed Lister (played by Suranne Jones) as a highly intelligent, charismatic, sexually liberated and gender non-conforming lesbian in search of commitment in late Georgian England. </p>
<p>Douglas represents Maitland as Lister’s sapphic forebear – an educated, intellectual and self-determining woman who found (and, sadly, lost) her love, and much of her liberty, in the repressively patriarchal and conflict-riven environment of Reformation Scotland. In this respect at least, Maitland could be considered the new Gentleman Jack.</p>
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<p><span><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/diane-watt-118677">Diane Watt</a>, Professor of English, <em><a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-surrey-1201">University of Surrey</a></em></span></p>
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