Lady Anne Clifford

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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, 1995, pp. 1 - 37, 133.
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  • BirthName: Lady Anne Clifford
  • Married: SackvilleCountess of Dorset
  • Styled:
  • Titled: SackvilleCountess of Dorset; HerbertCountess of Pembroke and Montgomery; Baroness Clifford
    LAC was posthumously recognised as Baroness Clifford in her own right. It would be normal for her to be known by the title of one or other of her husbands. She signed herself A. P. for Anne Pembroke and is catalogued at the Bodleian under Herbert. But literary historians have generally used her much-valued birth-name.
  • Indexed: HerbertCountess of Pembroke and Montgomery
Portrait of Lady Anne Clifford by William Larkin. She faces forward, sumptuously dressed in a green, heavily embroidered jacket over a white, lace-edged bodice, a small ruff of starched lace, and drop pearl earrings. Her thick hair is brushed back and adorned with a coronet. National Portrait Gallery.

Milestones

30 January 1590

LAC was born at Skipton Castle in Craven, in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
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.
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1603

The child LAC left a surviving summary of this year's events; it may or may not be the first such document she wrote.
Clifford, Lady Anne. “Introduction / Annotations / Bibliography”. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619, edited by Katherine O. Acheson, Garland, 1995, pp. 1 - 37, 133.
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January-March 1676

For the last three months of her life, LAC wrote a daily diary entry without fail.
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
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Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
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22 March 1676

LAC died at Brougham Castle in Westmorland.
This castle gave its name to a novel by Jane Harvey published in 1816.
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
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Biography

Birth and Background

30 January 1590

LAC was born at Skipton Castle in Craven, in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
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.
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