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.
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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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Katherine Philips
In DublinKP made an important new circle of friends centred on the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, James Butler, Duke of Ormond . They included the politician and playwright Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery (even...
Textual Production Diana Primrose
The full title of this tribute (to a reign which had ended a generation previously) was A Chaine of Pearle; or, a Memorial of the Peerles [sic] Graces and Heroick Vertues of Queen Elizabeth, of...
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW published her edition of The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford .
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Vita Sackville-West
The whole of the chapter dealing with Knole House in the reign of James I is taken up with a vivid account of Lady Anne Clifford , who appealed to VSW as a fellow-exile, though...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Isabella Spence
Spence's title-page bears a quotation from James Cririe , a little-known Scots poet whom Burns had praised (and whom she cites several times later in her text). Perhaps for the sake of her original audience...
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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Doreen Wallace
The book opens with a sonnet by Geoffrey Johnson whose opening lines consist almost entirely of Lake District placenames.
Wallace, Doreen. English Lakeland. Batsford.
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DW says little or nothing of the various writers associated with the area, but praises...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Virginia Woolf
VW 's interest in the writing of women of earlier generations is often fused with interest in their historical predicament and their personal achievements. In the late essay Anon. she returned to Lady Anne Clifford

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