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8 de abr. de 2024 · Anne Clifford, only surviving child of the Earl of Cumberland, spent four decades in legal action to recover the estates that her father had bequeathed to his brother and his male heirs, in...
4 de abr. de 2024 · Aged 13, Anne Clifford was judged too young to participate, but her mother, Margaret, Countess of Cumberland, was among Elizabeth’s aristocratic mourners. Clifford’s diaries and autobiography are filled with tremendous strength of purpose revealing her struggle for her rightful inheritance.
4 de abr. de 2024 · Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England John Donne: Body and Soul. In an essay, Ramie Targoff, the author of "Shakespeare’s Sisters," details how four female Renaissance writers—Anne Clifford, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Carey—were cut out of history.
- Ramie Targoff
22 de abr. de 2024 · Then there was Anne Clifford, a lifelong diarist who fought for decades against a patriarchy that tried to rob her of her land in one of England's most infamous inheritance battles. These women had husbands and children to care for and little support for their art, yet against all odds they defined themselves as writers, finding ...
5 de abr. de 2024 · The study is a captivating and revelatory look at the long-neglected literary output of English women writers of the Renaissance, writers often thought not to have existed at all. But here are four in exquisite detail: Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, and Anne Clifford, all demonstrably writing in Elizabethan and Jacobean ...
Hace 5 días · Jessica L. Malay’s paper ‘Anne Clifford: appropriating the rhetoric of queens to become the lady of the North’ examines Clifford’s 40-year struggle to claim her impressive inheritance. Malay suggests that Clifford was inspired by Elizabeth’s endurance during her journey to the throne, through disinheritance, imprisonment ...
7 de abr. de 2024 · Lady Anne Clifford, only child of the Earl of Cumberland, was 15 when her father died and left his estate to his brother rather than her. She responded by conducting a 40-year legal fight. Her claim to literary fame was the cache of letters and diaries she left behind.
