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Clifford, Lady Anne, countess of Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery

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Clifford, Lady Anne, countess of Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery (1590–1676), sole surviving child of George, the third duke of Cumberland, who excluded her as a female from his baronial titles and estates. She focused her life on resisting both her husbands, the earls of Dorset and Pembroke, and James I, to win possession of her titles and Westmorland estates, to which she triumphantly moved in 1649. She assembled a manuscript archive, with scholarly apparatus, and commissioned a magnificent dynastic triptych to substantiate her claim. Her personal diaries of the years 1603, 1616–17, and 1619 (the ‘Knole diary’) chronicle these events. She also left a ‘day book’, an intimate record of extreme old age as matriarch, landowner, and sheriff in Westmorland. V. Sackville-West, herself debarred from inheritance of Knole by her sex, edited The Diary of Lady Anne Clifford (1923).

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