The secret code Anne developed – which she created from a mix of Greek letters, numbers and symbols – allowed her to write candidly about love affairs which would have been unthinkably ...

In episode 3 of Gentleman Jack, Anne Lister (Suranne Jones) and Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle) return from their Lake District link-up to leafy Yorkshire, where love is clearly in the country air.

Episode seven of Gentleman Jack focused on the rocky relationship between Anne Lister and her longtime on-again off-again lover, Mariana Lawton, who she rushes to for comfort in the absence of her ...