How long does it take to read I Know My Own Heart?
The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840
Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread
I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread takes about 6 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 47 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1988. 370 pages, about 101,750 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When this volume of Anne Lister's diaries was first published in 1988, it was hailed as a vital piece of lost lesbian history. The editor, Helena Whitbread, had spent years painstakingly researching and transcribing Lister's extensive journals, much of which were written in an elaborate code - what Lister called her 'crypthand', which allowed her to record her life in intimate, and at times, explicit, detail. Until then, Anne Lister's lesbianism had been surpressed or hinted at; this was the first time her story had been told. Anne Lister defied the role of nineteenth-century womanhood: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveler and lesbian - a woman who lived her life on her own terms. "The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything. By resurrecting them and editing them with such loving attention and intelligence, Helena Whitbread has earned the gratitude of a whole generation" -- Emma Donoghue
Subjects: Lesbians, Biography, Diaries, Social life and customs, Lesbians, biography, Self-knowledge, theory of
