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, pp. 1 - 37, 133.
The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell
's usurpation,
Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn.
1: 1
among the Vesey family of Battleridge Castle (in the north of England, near one of the castles owned by Lady Anne Clifford
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...
Friends, Associates
Cicely Bulstrode
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...
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.
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
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
The youngest, Philip
(born the day his three-year-old sister died), married Lady Anne Clifford
.