<P> When Rawson offers to buy some land from Anne to sink a mine, she declines and says that she will mine it herself . She forms a business alliance with Ann Walker (Christine Bottomley), an unmarried acquaintance who has recently inherited her own fortune . They become close friends . Soon the two women are intimidated and harassed by Rawson, now their business rival . For protection, Ann Walker goes to stay at Shibden with Anne . Her aunt (Richenda Carey) comes to tell her niece that people are spreading shocking rumours about the two women . She asks Ann to return home before she ruins her family's name and warns her that she may ruin her chance of finding a husband . Ann tells her that she does not want a husband . When her aunt leaves, she tells Anne that she wants to live at Shibden with her . Anne asks her if she understands what the rumours and insinuations are about . Ann says that she does and makes it clear that she wants them to be together romantically . </P> <P> Mariana visits Anne and says that she could leave Charles now . She asks if there is still a place for her in Anne's heart, but Anne says that she has found someone she is happy with now, and Mariana leaves . Her husband lives to the age of 89 . </P> <P> The film premièred at the 24th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on 17 March 2010 . It was broadcast in the United Kingdom by BBC Two and BBC HD on 31 May 2010 . It played at the opening night of San Francisco's Frameline Film Festival on 17 June 2010 and was broadcast in Australia by ABC1 on 13 November 2011 . </P> <P> In its BBC broadcast, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister drew 1.878 million viewers (7.8%) and 50,000 more, simultaneously, on BBC HD . Critics gave a mixed response to the drama . </P>

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