SOURCE: Suzuki, Mihoko. “Anne Clifford and the Gendering of History.” CLIO 30, No. 2 (Winter 2001): 195-229.

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 either chaste transmitters of genealogical succession or unruly obstacles to the unfolding of male-centered history.”

Tyme brings to forgetfullness any memorable thing in this world, bee they never so carefully preserved.

“A Summary of the Records, and a True Memorial of the life of me the Lady Anne Clifford”

In her study of women and property in early modern England, Amy Louise Erikson describes Anne Clifford (1590-1676) as the protagonist of the most publicized and celebrated marital property dispute of the seventeenth century.¹ Heir to one of the most prominent families in Elizabethan England, Clifford, the daughter of George, Third Earl of Cumberland (1558-1608) and...