Jill Liddington in conversation with Emma Donoghue – Anne Lister.

Celebrated writer Emma Donoghue’s new novel, Learned by Heart, tells the story of young Anne Lister’s love affair with Eliza Raine – formed when they were both pupils at the elite Manor School in York.  The two girls were thrown together and Eliza’s life was turned upside down.

Jill is a feminist historian, her work on Anne Lister’s diaries focussing on the 1830s. By then Anne had inherited Shibden Hall and established herself as a formidable member of the local landed gentry. So this conversation between two very different authors, both fascinated by Anne Lister, promises to be exhilarating!

7 pm: the Durham LitFest event is hosted by Collected Books, Durham’s new independent bookshop: 44 The Riverwalk, DH1 4SL.   www.collectedbooks.co.uk