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A Marriage Without a Name: A Queer Historical Fiction
Paperback
Series: Hidden Heroines
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 2 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the quiet hills of Yorkshire, within the stone walls of Shibden Hall, a life unfolds that history was never meant to remember.
Anne Lister is not a woman easily contained. Brilliant, unyielding, and fiercely self-aware, she records her days with meticulous precision-capturing not only the world as it is, but as she dares to live within it. Yet beneath the surface of her carefully ordered life lies a truth she cannot speak aloud, a truth written instead in coded lines across the pages of her private journals.
When she meets Ann Walker, uncertain, devout, and bound by the expectations of a rigid society, something fragile and extraordinary begins to take shape between them. What follows is not a romance the world will recognize, but something far more dangerous: a devotion that refuses to disappear, even when denied a name.
Together, they navigate longing, fear, faith, and defiance, forging a bond that exists outside the boundaries of what is permitted. In secret, within sacred walls that will never acknowledge them, they make a vow-not witnessed, not sanctioned, but no less real.
A marriage without a name.
Told in lush, immersive prose, A Marriage Without a Name is a sweeping work of historical fiction that brings to life one of history's most remarkable-and long-hidden-love stories. It is a story of quiet courage, of enduring connection, and of what it means to live truthfully in a world that refuses to see you.
For readers of literary historical fiction and deeply emotional narratives, this novel invites you into a past where love was written in code, carried in silence, and lived with undeniable reality.
They were here.
And they were never meant to be forgotten.
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