The Memoir of 1603 and the Diary of 1616-1619

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Broadview Press, Nov 3, 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 278 pages

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.

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Contents

Acknowledgements
7
A Brief Chronology
35
Aemilia Lanyer To the Lady Anne Countess
191
Anthony Stafford To the Admired Lady
207
From Edward Rainbow Bishop of Carlisle
233
Works Cited
271
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Page 83 - My heart is smitten, and withered like grass ; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Page 228 - And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
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Page 222 - And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
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Page 229 - I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: "I will guide thee with mine eye.

About the author (2006)

Katherine O. Acheson is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo.

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