Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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, 1995, pp. 1 - 37, 133.
The youngest, Philip
(born the day his three-year-old sister died), married Lady Anne Clifford
.
Family and Intimate relationships
Katherine Parr
KP
's father, Sir Thomas Parr, died on 11 November 1517, while Katherine was still very young. His ancestral home was Kendal Castle in Westmorland (later owned by Lady Anne Clifford
), but he lived...
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.
CB
's circle of friends included other ladies who wrote: Lady Southwell
and Lady Anne Clifford
. Lady Bedford
(who was said to write but who is more famous as a dedicatee of the works...
Friends, Associates
Anne Finch
AF
enjoyed personal friendships with a number of distinguished men, among them Bishop Thomas Ken
. She valued female friendship very highly; women friends figure prominently in her poetry. Lady Catherine Jones
, to whom...
Intertextuality and Influence
Cassandra Cooke
Other events follow the ending of the inset tale. Dr Scot is involved in a hush-hush mission with General Monck
, facilitating the Restoration of Charles II
. The story cannot end until the title...
Literary Setting
Cassandra Cooke
The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell
's usurpation,
Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn, 1799, 2 vols.
1: 1
among the Vesey family of Battleridge Castle (in the north of England, near one of the castles owned by Lady Anne Clifford
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
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, 1999.
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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...
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...
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, 1816, 2 vols.
1: 5
Lady Anne died at Brougham, one of the best-loved...
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 Production
Vita Sackville-West
VSW
published her edition of The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford
.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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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.