Anne Clifford 1590-1676
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Anne CLIFFORD, Countess of Pembroke 1590-1676
Biographical Note
Noblewoman who acquired significant wealth through inheritance and marriage.
Books
Several books with her armorial stamps survive, together with other evidence of her extensive ownership and reading of books. Her library is famously pictorially represented in a painting of 1646; an attempt has been made to reconstruct her library, based on that (PLRE 277).
Sources
- British Armorial Bindings.
- Clifford, D. (ed), The diaries of Lady Anne Clifford, 1990.
- Hackel, H. B. Reading material in early modern England. Cambridge, 2005, 222-240.
- Harding, R. ‘Scraps of insignificant scribbling’: the Rev. Dr. Thomas Raffles and a lost book from the library of Lady Anne Clifford, Poetica 89 & 90 (2018), 123-38.
- Knight, L. Reading proof: or, problems and possibilities in the text life of Anne Clifford, in L. Knight et al (eds), Women’s bookscapes in early modern Britain, Ann Arbor, 2018, 253-73.
- Kuhta, Richard, “I beegane, to ovrloke this booke …”: Lady Anne Clifford’s copy of Titles of honor, in G. T. Tanselle (ed), Other people’s books, 2011, 42-45.
- Price, Leah, Lady Anne Clifford, Private Libraries in Renaissance England 9 (2017) 346-63.
- Purcell, M. The country house library. New Haven & London, 2017, 63.
- Spence, Richard T. "Clifford, Anne [known as Lady Anne Clifford, countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery (1590–1676), noblewoman and diarist."] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Spence, R. Lady Anne Clifford, 1997.