Anne Clifford
Also recorded as Anne Herbert · Anne, Countess of Pembroke Herbert · Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of Pembroke · Anne Clifford Herbert
Anne Clifford
William Larkin · Weiss Gallery · Public domain
- Born
- 1590
- Died
- 1676
- Nationality
- England
- Occupation
- diarist · architect · politician · writer
- Known for
- Countess Pillar · Skipton Castle · Brough Castle · Appleby Castle · Brougham Castle · Pendragon Castle
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Identity and origins
Identity and origins
Her recorded language was English. She was the child of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland and Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland. She married Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset and Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke. 3 children are recorded: Margaret Sackville, Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst and Lady Isabella Sackville.
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Anne Clifford (30 January 1590 – 22 March 1676) is described as a noble and patron in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names. Anne Clifford was born in Skipton Castle, United Kingdom (30 January 1590) and died in Brougham Castle, United Kingdom (22 March 1676).
Title page of a 1923 edition of Lady Anne Clifford's diaries, with an introduction by Vita Sackville-West.
Lady Anne Clifford
A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: Anne Clifford – English countess (1590-1676)
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Life and career
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Life and career
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1590
Anne Clifford born at Skipton Castle.
1676
Anne Clifford died at Brougham Castle.
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scholarly publication
- Anne Clifford and the Gendering of History, Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550–1700, 2020
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2020
- Anne Clifford as Orlando, Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550–1700, 2020
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2020
- Re-writing Patriarchy and Patronage: Margaret Clifford, Anne Clifford, and Aemilia Lanyer, Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700, 2017
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2017
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q4943112: Anne Clifford
Scholarly · Wikimedia Foundation
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- 1.Profile, theguardian.com, 3 October 2013; Retrieved 24 March 2014.
- 2.Abbot Hall.
- 3.Clifford. The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford. Alan Sutton Publishing. 1990.
- 4.Clifford, Anne.
- 5.Seelig, Sharon. Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women's Lives 1600–1680. Cambridge University Press.
- 6.Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, 'Reading Anne Clifford's Books in the Company of Samuel Daniel', Aufklärung, 32 (2020), p. 38.
- 7.Thomas Dunham Whitaker, The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven (London, 1805), pp. 279–80.
- 8.Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writings (Manchester, 2018), pp. 7, 17, 20, 22.
- 9.Effie Botonaki, "Anne of Denmark and the Court Masque", Debra Barret-Graves, The Emblematic Queen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 148–150.
- 10.Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676 (Manchester, 2018), pp. 48, 234: Eva Griffith, A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse: The Queen's Servants at the Red Bull Theatre (Cambridge, 2013), p. 129.
- 11.Effie Botonaki, "Anne of Denmark and the Court Masque", Debra Barrett-Graves, The Emblematic Queen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 149–150.
- 12.DeMers, p. 123.
- 13.Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676 (Manchester, 2018), p. 21.
- 14.Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676 (Manchester, 2018), p. 100.
- 15.Eva Griffith, A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse: The Queen's Servants at the Red Bull Theatre (Cambridge, 2013), p. 129: William Gifford, The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 (London, 1816), p. 158.
- 16.John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 2 (London, 1828), p. 628.
- 17.HMC 7th Report (More Molyneux) (London, 1879), p. 668.
- 18.Courtney Erin Thomas, If I lose Mine Honour I Lose Myself (Toronto, 2017), p 106.
- 19.Richardson, p. 117.
- 20.Hodgkin, Katharine. The Diary of Lady Anne Clifford: A Study of Class and Gender in the Seventeenth Century. History Workshop. 19. 148–161. 1985. 10.1093/hwj/19.1.148.
- 21.D. J. H. Clifford, The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford (Stroud, 1990), pp. 274-6.
- 22.Jane Ashelford, The Art of Dress, Clothes and Society (National Trust, 1996), pp. 63-4.
- 23.David J. H. Clifford, The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford (Stroud, 1990), 45, 47, 55.
- 24.David J. H. Clifford, The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford (Stroud, 1990), 57, 64.
- 25.Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676 (Manchester, 2018), pp. 3, 69.
- 26.Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writings (Manchester, 2018), 72: D. J. H. Clifford, The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford (Stroud, 1990), p. 66.
- 27.Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writings (Manchester, 2018), pp. 42 and 54: Susan Frye, Pins and Needles: Women's Textualities in Early Modern England (Philadelphia, 2010), pp. 123-4.
- 28.Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676 (Manchester, 2018), p. 229.
- 29.Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writings (Manchester, 2018), pp. 7–8: Vita Sackville-West, The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford (London, 1923), p. lxiv
- 30.Julie Crawford, Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2014), pp. 123–124.
- 31.Snook, p. 1
- 32.HMC 11th Report Appendix Part VII: Lord Hothfield (London, 1888), p. 83 spelling modernised here.
- 33.Lady Anne Clifford's story, Historic England.
- 34.S Lewis, London 1848. Anthony, St - Appledram A Topographical Dictionary of England. British History Online.
- 35.George Charles Williamson, Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, 1590–1676 (Kendal: Wilson, 1922), pp. 467–469.
- 36.Holly Dugan, The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England (John Hopkins, 2011), p. 115.
- 37.Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass, Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (Cambridge, 2000), p. 203.
- 38.Castle Explorer. Appleby Castle.
- 39.English Heritage Lady Anne Clifford
- 40.Geograph Photograph and description of Lady Anne Clifford's tomb
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scholarly publication
Anne Clifford and the Gendering of History, Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550–1700, 2020Crossref registry
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Anne Clifford as Orlando, Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550–1700, 2020Crossref registry
Institutional witnessscholarly publication
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q4943112: Anne CliffordWikimedia Foundation
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Work and production. Works recorded as notable number 7: Countess Pillar, Skipton Castle, Brough Castle, Appleby Castle, Brougham Castle, Pendragon Castle and Ninekirks.
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