In 1822, Anne Lister, an unmarried thirty-one year old woman wrote in her diary, speculating on the relationship status of two celebrities she had just visited. “I cannot help thinking that surely it was not platonic. It excited in me a sort of peculiar interest tinged with melancholy.” Anne Lister had visited Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, known as The Ladies of Llangollen.

Seeking Sisterhood is a new film by Hil McKinley, written and narrated by me.