Ann, Lady Fanshawe

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ALF is one of a remarkable group of seventeenth-century memoirists, biographers, or autobiographers whose material was the English Civil War and its aftermath. She is part historian, part political or religious analyst, and part adventure writer.

Milestones

25 March 1625

Ann Harrison, later ALF , was born on Lady Day in London, in Hart St, parish of St Olave's.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Sir Richard Fanshawe and Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 91-9.
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Ann, Lady Fanshawe, et al. “The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 101-92.
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May 1676

The extant manuscript of Ann Fanshawe 's Memoirs of her late husband was transcribed this month. This copy is now British Library Additional MS 41161.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Sir Richard Fanshawe and Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 91-9.
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Earlier January 1680

Ann, Lady Fanshawe , died after thirteen years of widowhood, at the age of only fifty-four.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Sir Richard Fanshawe and Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 91-9.
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1785

Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby , the ladies of Llangollen, meticulously transcribed the whole of ALF 's Memoirs (dating from May 1676) as a present for a friend.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin.
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Biography

Birth and Family

25 March 1625

Ann Harrison, later ALF , was born on Lady Day in London, in Hart St, parish of St Olave's.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Sir Richard Fanshawe and Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 91-9.
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Ann, Lady Fanshawe, et al. “The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 101-92.
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