LAC
says her mother (born Lady Margaret Russell
, daughter of the second Earl of Bedford) had read most books of worth translated into English,
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.
19
the only language she knew. She was a devout...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lucy Hutchinson
LH
's younger sister, Elizabeth (whom her mother favoured), was left a petticoat of cloth-of-silver by Lady Anne Clifford
's mother the Countess of Cumberland
, who was related to them.
Literary responses
Aemilia Lanyer
Lorna Hutson
in the ODNB entry on AL
notes that the lines to the Countess of Cumberland
, Lanyer's pre-eminent patron, are remarkable in declining to equate female excellence with chastity, but celebrating instead a...
Occupation
Lady Anne Clifford
LAC
set up (in her mother
's name) a memorial to the poet Spenser
in Westminster Abbey.
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
67-8
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Agnes Strickland
It appears from the book that the element of fresh and painstaking research has declined in comparison with the sisters' earlier works of the same type. The lives written by Agnes included those of Lady Margaret Clifford
Travel
Lady Anne Clifford
LAC
travelled north to bury her mother
's lead-encased body at St Lawrence's Church in Appleby, Westmorland.
Clifford, Lady Anne. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition. Editor Acheson, Katherine O., Garland, 1995.
51-2, 56
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
38
Travel
Aemilia Lanyer
AL
made the visit to the Countess of Cumberland
at Cookham in Berkshire which inspired an important poem.
Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press, 1999.
29
Wealth and Poverty
Lady Anne Clifford
LAC
's mother
launched her daughter's claim to inherit her father
's estates.
Clifford, Lady Anne. “Introduction / Annotations / Bibliography”. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619, edited by Katherine O. Acheson, Garland, 1995, pp. 1 - 37, 133.