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''The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister'' was a one-off [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] drama that aired in May 2010. The title character was a Victorian industrialist and businesswoman and is considered to be the first modern lesbian. The programme mostly details her relationship with her girlfriend, Mariana, and her ex/best friend, Tib. Things don't get off to a good start, since after the exposition the plot sucker punches Anne with the announcement of Mariana's engagement to Charles, an older wealthy landowner.

!!This work provides examples of:
%%* {{Bifauxnen}}: Anne.
* CompressedAdaptation: The scriptwriter commented that to fully adapt all of Anne's diaries to TV would require a ten episode series, but the commission was only for ninety minutes.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Anne and Mariana eagerly await the death of Charles so that they can be together.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Anne and Tib's relationship develops into this, although Tib is tired of being relegated to JustFriends.
%%* LastGirlWins: [[spoiler:Ann.]]
%%* LipstickLesbian: Mariana.
* MyOwnPrivateIDo: [[spoiler:Anne and Ann's wedding, for obvious reasons.]]
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Anne and Ann, since [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Real Life Wrote The Plot]], although the different spellings make it a little easier to distinguish between the two.
%%* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Tib.
* SoHappyTogether: Unusually, they manage to do this twice. First with the very start of the programme and again before the SecondActBreakup.
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