Proud Northern Lady

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Anne Clifford died in 1676 full of years & honours ‘the great wise woman’ of Bishop Rainbow’s funeral oration ‘fitter for a history than a sermon’. The history had to wait 300 years for Martin Holmes to write this book but she was not forgotten & indeed is referred to as if but recently departed in Craven where she was born; in Kent where she was mistress of Knole; in Wiltshire where she saw the rebuilding of Wilton under Inigo Jones; & most of all in Westmorland where in her several ancestral castles she spent her indomitable old age. Born in 1590 daughter of Queen Elizabeth’s Champion the Earl of Cumberland she had been in succession Countess of Dorset & of Pembroke; but in any age when women were merely their husband’s obident chattels she remained steadfastly herself & her father’s daughter. She defied King James she defied Cromwell & survived them & her husbands to leave an indelible mark & memory in the places & among the people who knew her. Key
Features: Paperback 181 pages