About the Author

Janet Lea has sold hula hoops, organized armadillo races, and been suspected of being a CIA spy. She's lived in a VW van with a beagle puppy, dodged military checkpoints in Tibet, and camped out on the Great Wall of China. There's a rumor that Misadventure is her middle name, but it's actually Marie. A native Texan and a fan of big, as an ex-advertising executive she once brought the world's largest seat belt to stretch around the Alamo, and her inspirational stories for public service causes were featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show...twice. Having done her bit to make the world a better place, Janet now writes full time. The Gentleman Jack Effect: Breaking Rules and Living Out Loud is her first book. She and her wife live in Santa Fe, New Mexico near a dry stream bed inhabited by a coyote they call Sneak. Vivian Swift is the author and illustrator of three books. When not traveling, she lives with her husband in Too Many Cats Manor, a 100-year-old house on the Long Island Sound in New York.

Reviews

This book is a joyous mosaic, a celebration of the power of the words from one woman of a distant era to echo down through the years and provide inspiration, validation, and courage to generations of women.-Helena Whitbread, author, The Secret Diaries of Anne Lister, and the first historian to reveal Anne Lister's sexuality in her 1988 book Janet Lea's interviews with Gentleman Jack fans vividly capture the huge impact that Sally Wainwright's drama has had on their lives. Many say time can be measured as before Gentleman Jack and after Gentleman Jack.-Jill Liddington, author of Female Fortune, the book that inspired the Gentleman Jack television series