Lady Anne Clifford

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Standard Name: Clifford, Lady Anne
Birth Name: Anne Clifford
Styled: Lady Anne Clifford
Married Name: Lady Anne Sackville
Titled: Lady Anne Sackville, Countess of Dorset
Indexed Name: Lady Anne Herbert
Titled: Lady Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery
Titled: Lady Anne Herbert, Baroness Clifford
LAC 's known writings (clustered in two periods: her youth in the early seventeenth century and her old age after the Restoration) consist of diaries, yearly summaries or chronicles, and an autobiography which relates family history, and part of her life.
Clifford, Lady Anne. “Introduction / Annotations / Bibliography”. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619, edited by Katherine O. Acheson, Garland, pp. 1 - 37, 133.
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Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Cooper
Her selection runs from Edward the Confessor to Samuel Daniel . (The title-page mentions Gower , Langland, and Chaucer.) For each poet she provides a short biography and a scholarly and critical preface. Her judgements...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Doreen Wallace
The book opens with a sonnet by Geoffrey Johnson whose opening lines consist almost entirely of Lake District placenames.
Wallace, Doreen. English Lakeland. Batsford.
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DW says little or nothing of the various writers associated with the area, but praises...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Virginia Woolf
VW 's interest in the writing of women of earlier generations is often fused with interest in their historical predicament and their personal achievements. In the late essay Anon. she returned to Lady Anne Clifford
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Vita Sackville-West
The whole of the chapter dealing with Knole House in the reign of James I is taken up with a vivid account of Lady Anne Clifford , who appealed to VSW as a fellow-exile, though...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Isabella Spence
Spence's title-page bears a quotation from James Cririe , a little-known Scots poet whom Burns had praised (and whom she cites several times later in her text). Perhaps for the sake of her original audience...
Textual Production Aemilia Lanyer
AL accompanied her title poem with elaborate paratextual matter, both to introduce and to conclude it. Before the narrative come nine individual prefatory addresses or dedications to powerful ladies of the court, all except one...
Textual Production Diana Primrose
The full title of this tribute (to a reign which had ended a generation previously) was A Chaine of Pearle; or, a Memorial of the Peerles [sic] Graces and Heroick Vertues of Queen Elizabeth, of...
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW published her edition of The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford .
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
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Textual Production Cicely Bulstrode
With her court circle, which included Sir Thomas Overbury, Anne, Lady Southwell, and Lady Anne Clifford ) CB may have written some of the popular forms of character-sketches, satire, essays, and maxims.
Textual Features Alice Sutcliffe
After the dedication follow acrostics by AS on the names of her two dedicatees and on that of the Lord Chamberlain, Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery (who was the husband of Lady Anne Clifford
Textual Features Jane Harvey
This too begins like a guidebook. JH quotes Ann Radcliffe , and mentions the celebrated Lady Anne Clifford , the castle's best-known owner.
Harvey, Jane. Brougham Castle. A. K. Newman.
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Lady Anne died at Brougham, one of the best-loved...
Reception Lucy Hutchinson
Since her tally of works in print began to climb steeply in the 1990s, anthologists Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson have called LHone of the most important poets, man or woman, of the mid-century...
Occupation John Donne
The highly literary great ladies of the Renaissance were part of Donne's writing environment. His predecessors in metrical experiment included Mary, Countess of Pembroke . He wrote in praise of her and of minor court...
Occupation John Donne
Once married, with a growing family, Donne worked at various jobs in various capacities for various moneyed men. None of this work was satisfactory in terms either of income or ambition. Very soon after he...
Occupation Aemilia Lanyer
Her biographer Susanne Woods suggests that AL may have been employed to teach music to the countess's daughter, the future diarist Lady Anne Clifford .
Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press.
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Texts

Gilson, Julius Parnell, and Lady Anne Clifford. “Introduction”. Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of Her Parents, Roxburghe Club, 1916, p. xi - xxxiv.
Clifford, Lady Anne. “Introduction / Annotations / Bibliography”. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619, edited by Katherine O. Acheson, Garland, 1995, pp. 1 - 37, 133.
Clifford, Lady Anne. “Introduction / Prologue”. The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford, edited by David J. H. Clifford, Alan Sutton, 1991, pp. xi - xv, 1.
Clifford, Lady Anne. “Introductory Note”. The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford, edited by Vita Sackville-West, George H. Doran, 1923, p. ix - lvi.
Clifford, Lady Anne. Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of Her Parents. Editor Gilson, Julius Parnell, Roxburghe Club, 1916.
Clifford, Lady Anne. The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford. Editor Clifford, David J. H., Alan Sutton, 1991.
Clifford, Lady Anne. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition. Editor Acheson, Katherine O., Garland, 1995.
Clifford, Lady Anne. The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford. Editor Sackville-West, Vita, William Heinemann, 1923.