The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford
The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford

Author: D.J.H Clifford

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0752494988

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Noblewoman, vividly documents both the great and the trivial events of her long life. They cover her life from her childhood days, when she witnessed the funeral of Queen Elizabeth I, to her last months, when she recalled her past from her room in Brougham Castle. Through compiling and transcribing the manuscript records, D.J.H. Clifford here presents in one volume the full range of Lady Anne's life: her active role at court as the Countess of Dorset (residing at Knole in Kent), her turbulent second marriage to the 4th Earl of Pembroke at Wilton Wiltshire, and her final, long-disputed succession to her father's lands in Westmorland and North Yorkshire. The diaries are complemented by explanatory notes, family trees and illustrations. They provide both an important historical record and an intriguing glimpse into the and character of this noble and Christian lady, whose powerful presence is still in evidence today in the monuments and folklore of Westmorland.

The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford
The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford

Author: D.J.H Clifford

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0752494988

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Noblewoman, vividly documents both the great and the trivial events of her long life. They cover her life from her childhood days, when she witnessed the funeral of Queen Elizabeth I, to her last months, when she recalled her past from her room in Brougham Castle. Through compiling and transcribing the manuscript records, D.J.H. Clifford here presents in one volume the full range of Lady Anne's life: her active role at court as the Countess of Dorset (residing at Knole in Kent), her turbulent second marriage to the 4th Earl of Pembroke at Wilton Wiltshire, and her final, long-disputed succession to her father's lands in Westmorland and North Yorkshire. The diaries are complemented by explanatory notes, family trees and illustrations. They provide both an important historical record and an intriguing glimpse into the and character of this noble and Christian lady, whose powerful presence is still in evidence today in the monuments and folklore of Westmorland.

The Memoir of 1603 and the Diary of 1616-1619
The Memoir of 1603 and the Diary of 1616-1619

Author: Anne Clifford

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2006-11-03

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1551113392

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Anne Clifford’s memoir for the year 1603 and her diary of 1616-1619 are invaluable records of the daily life and social and family relationships of a noblewoman of her time. In them she records her travels, her reading, her religious observances, her relationships with her mother, her husband, and her child, and the progress—or lack thereof—of her legal efforts to obtain what she viewed as her inheritance, extensive estates in the north of England. The two texts offer a unique view of the life, feelings, experience, and self-fashioning of this extraordinary woman, and they bring to life the history and literary culture of the period in a refreshing and direct way. This Broadview edition includes an illuminating introduction that places these texts in their historical and literary context. The appendices include poems dedicated and addressed to Clifford, her funeral sermon, and the “Great Picture” of the Clifford family.

Anne Clifford's Great Books of Record
Anne Clifford's Great Books of Record

Author: Anne Clifford Herbert Countess of Pembroke

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 976

ISBN-13: 9780719091872

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Anne Clifford, in her Great Books of Records, places herself within the dynamic 600 year history of the Clifford family. This book is unique, including a wide variety of records that provide an unbroken view into life on the Clifford estates in England, (as well as the borders of Wales,Ireland, and Scotland) for centuries, as well as the family's involvement at the centre of political life. Here we glimpse the lives of simple widows, traders, farmers, and labourers juxtaposed with the adventures of soldiers, lords and ladies, princes and princesses. We see how rebellions,crusades, and foreign wars impacted both the great and the humble. And we witness changes in the practices of justice and custom. In this book Anne Clifford asserts the centrality of women to the success of the Clifford and other noble families, including the monarchy.Anne Clifford writes herself into this history, asserting her own rights to govern the lands of her father after her decades long inheritance dispute. Anne Clifford's composition of the Great Books draws upon medieval traditions and early modern scholarship and builds upon these through theinclusion of biographies of all the Clifford lords and ladies, along with an extended biography of her mother Margaret Russell and her own autobiographical, "The Life of Mee". Those interested in the lives of medieval and early modern women, changes in culture, the effect of the political uponindividuals, and the inspiring life of Anne Clifford will find this a rich and rewarding book.

The Will to Succeed
The Will to Succeed

Author: Christine Raafat

Publisher: Unicorn

Published: 2020-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781912690688

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Whenthe 15-year-old Lady Anne Clifford's father died in 1605, she was his solesurviving child and expecting to inherit the Cliffords' great northernestates. But the Earl of Cumberland leaves a will which ignores an ancientlaw and bequeaths the lands to his brother, in the belief that a prophecy byhis great-grandfather will eventually come true and return the estates to Anne. She and her mother vow to contestthe will. Annespends the next three decades battling for what she believes is rightfullyhers. She risks everything by opposing her beloved husband, her family andfriends, the nobility, the law courts, the Archbishop of Canterbury and theKing. She steadfastly (and treasonably) refuses to accept the King's decision,whatever the consequences, but is defeated and left with the prophecy as heronly hope. Widowed at thirty-four, she survives an anxious period alone with hertwo young daughters before surprising everyone with an ill-judged secondmarriage which gives her access to the highest in the land. But the Civil Wardestroys that power and confines the 52-year-old Anne to a grand palace inLondon for six years. Still convinced of her rights, will she ever attain "yelandes of mine inheritance"?

Women Writers in Renaissance England
Women Writers in Renaissance England

Author: Randall Martin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-21

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1317862910

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Of all the new developments in literary theory, feminism has proved to be the most widely influential, leading to an expansion of the traditional English canon in all periods of study. This book aims to make the work of Renaissance women writers in English better known to general and academic readers so as to strengthen the case for their future inclusion in the Renaissance literary canon. This lively book surveys women writers in the sixteenth century and early seventeenth centuries. Its selection is vast, historically representative, and original, taking examples from twenty different, relatively unknown authors in all genres of writing, including poetry, fiction, religious works, letters and journals, translation, and books on childcare. It establishes new contexts for the debate about women as writers within the period and suggests potential intertextual connections with works by well-known male authors of the same time. Individual authors and works are given concise introductions, with both modern and historical critical analysis, setting them in a theoretical and historicised context. All texts are made readily accessible through modern spelling and punctuation, on-the-page annotation and headnotes. The substantial, up-to-date bibliography provides a source for further study and research.

Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England
Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England

Author: Michelle M. Dowd

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1317129377

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By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected here interrogate the discursive contours of gendered identity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The contributors explore how generic choice, mixture, and revision influence narrative constructions of the female self in early modern England. Collectively they situate women's life writings within the broader textual culture of early modern England while maintaining a focus on the particular rhetorical devices and narrative structures that comprise individual texts. Reconsidering women's life writing in light of recent critical trends-most notably historical formalism-this volume produces both new readings of early modern texts (such as Margaret Cavendish's autobiography and the diary of Anne Clifford) and a new understanding of the complex relationships between literary forms and early modern women's 'selves'. This volume engages with new critical methods to make innovative connections between canonical and non-canonical writing; in so doing, it helps to shape the future of scholarship on early modern women.

The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford
The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford

Author: Anne Clifford

Publisher:

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781436673877

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.