Lady Anne Clifford left one of the most extensive autobiographical records of the seventeenth century, including a memoir of the year 1603; a diary for the years 1616, 1617, and 1619; an autobiography dated 1653; summary accounts of each year from 1650...

Tyme brings to forgetfullness any memorable thing in this world, bee they never so carefully preserved. "A Summary of the Records, and a True Memorial of the life of me the Lady Anne Clifford" In her study of women and property...

Edited by Katherine O. Acheson. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1995. We live in an exciting decade, when reliable editions of rediscovered early modern women writers are appearing at the rate of four or five a year. These two volumes, Sara...

In the following essay, Lewalski argues that Clifford's Diary reveals the relation between writing and resistance, between authoring a text and authoring a self.

In the following essay, Suzuki suggests that in her writings Clifford undermined the dominant ideology of early modern historiography, which “regarded women not as agents of history but as either chaste transmitters of genealogical succession or unruly obstacles to the unfolding of male-centered history.”

In the following essay, Acheson discusses Clifford's writing as an example of the paradoxical nature of modernity. Clifford, Acheson argues, anticipates modernity in her alienation from the present and by using the past to refigure the future.