Acknowledgements
The editors would like to thank Emma Donoghue for her knowledge of and enthusiasm for Anne Lister and her encouragement and ongoing support of this project; Sally Wainwright for bringing Anne Lister to a much broader audience and supporting the digitisation project that has made it possible for scholars to delve more deeply into the diaries; Harriet Monkhouse for her enthusiastic support and encouragement; and Helena Whitbread for her lifelong commitment to Anne Lister and for bringing the first coded sections of the diary into publication. Both editors are also deeply grateful to all the volunteer transcribers who have given their time and energy to making the Anne Lister diaries available online.