The Yorkshire lady of renown, the one who has the fairer sex under her spell, is sticking around. Deadline confirms “Gentleman Jack,” the HBO and BBC period drama about “first modern lesbian” Anne Lister, is getting another eight-episode season.

Hailing from creator and writer Sally Wainwright (“Happy Valley”), the first season of 1830s-set “Gentleman Jack” sees Anne (Suranne Jones, “Doctor Foster”) returning home to her Yorkshire estate, Shibden Hall, following a failed love affair abroad. She becomes reacquainted with her neighbor Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle, “Bodyguard”) and decides to pursue the shy younger woman in the hopes of settling down with her and improving Shibden. Based on real people and events, “Gentleman Jack” also traces Anne’s plans to open her own coal mine.

Needless to say, Anne is quite ahead of her time. She’s as open about her sexuality as she can be. She wears simple black clothing, high collars, and a top hat. She owns property, collects rent from her tenants, and is an ace negotiator — in other words, she doesn’t act the way women in Regency England are expected to act.

“Gentleman Jack’s” first season was directed entirely by women: Wainwright, Sarah Harding, and Jennifer Perrott. Wainwright also exec produced.

According to Deadline, the show marked “the BBC’s biggest new drama launch of the year with an average overnight audience of 5.1 million viewers.” It premiered May 19 on the UK’s BBC and April 22 on HBO.

The supporting cast includes Gemma Whelan (“Game of Thrones”), Gemma Jones (“God’s Own Country”), and Rosie Cavaliero (“Little Dorrit”).

“It’s so exciting that so many people have had such a positive response to Suranne’s exuberant performance as the brilliant, life-affirming Anne Lister and to Sophie’s beautiful performance as her courageous partner, Ann Walker,” Wainwright commented. “I’m utterly delighted that we’ve been recommissioned, because there are so many more big, bold stories to tell about Anne Lister and Ann Walker.”

“I’m so thrilled that I will be joining Sally Wainwright on the second part of Anne’s journey. We always dreamed there would be more and now we get to play it all out,” Suranne Jones agreed. “It’s such amazing and positive news. I love working with the brilliant and talented Sophie Rundle and can’t wait to create some more Lister and Walker moments with her, too.”

In an interview with Women and Hollywood, Wainwright explained the origins of the show’s name — and Lister’s nickname — Gentleman Jack: “It’s an insult. She was a social climber, and she was considered to be quite snooty. She did keep her gaze above [polite society] — she had to. It was kind of her carapace to deal with the fact that when she walked through Halifax, she was a very unusual figure. So, gentleman because she was a bit snooty, and Jack was sort of the equivalent slang term for dyke,” she explained. “So, it’s like she took advantage of the fact that she was hiding in plain sight. She was so open about who she was, but nobody had any language for it except for very vulgar language, like insulting her with ‘Gentleman Jack’ or very sort of highfalutin language like ‘wintering in Rome.’”

“Gentleman Jack” airs Mondays on HBO and Sundays on the BBC.