Contributions

  • Acheson, Katherine O., 1963- - Contributor

Publication

2007 - Broadview Editions, Peterborough, Ont, Ontario

Language

English

Word Count

69,500 words, Guess

Page Count

278 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007270332
  • LibraryThing2301099
  • Goodreads777935

Classifications

  • LCCDA378.P4 A3 2007

Description

"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."--Jacket.

Subjects

Genres

  • Diaries
  • Early works to 1800
  • Biography

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