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...
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In the following essay, Sackville-West presents background details about Clifford and her family and then attempts to reconstruct the diarist's character from the records she left.
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In the following excerpt from his full-length study of Clifford, Holmes discusses some of the details from Clifford's later years as noted in her unfinished autobiography, a work that, unlike h...
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In the following essay, Spence claims that Clifford's biographers have tended to be too uncritical of her, and attempts to present a more rounded picture of Clifford's character and acti...
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In the following excerpt, Clifford provides a brief overview of the content and composition of Clifford's diaries and offers a detailed discussion of her family background.
‘It is but...
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In the following essay, Lamb discusses Clifford as a “split subject”—an aristocratic heir as well as a woman who refused to be subordinated to male authorities.
One of the most...
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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.
Anne Clifford (1589-1676) pr...
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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 pre...
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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 eith...
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Anne Clifford
Critical Essay by Victoria Sackville-West
