Reassessing Anne Clifford’s Books: The Discovery of a New Manuscript Inventory

Abstract

A nne Clifford's book collection has long been at the forefront of scholarship on early modern women's reading practices and book acquisition.1 The discovery of a manuscript inventory of 109 books from Clifford's library in Appleby Castle makes a significant contribution to this scholarship, and it also enhances our understanding of book ownership by men and women in the seventeenth century more generally.This list of Anne Clifford's books is found bound in a manuscript of estate records, "Book of Writing, E" commissioned by Clifford's Jessica Malay is Professor of English Renaissance Literature at the University of Huddersfield, UK.She is the editor of Anne Clifford's Great Books of Record and the first complete edition of Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing.She has published widely on Early Modern women and culture and is currently leading a large grant funding project, Autobiographical Acts in 17th-century England, Scotland, Wales and New England.

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Jessica L. Malay (2021). Reassessing Anne Clifford’s Books: The Discovery of a New Manuscript Inventory. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1086/712910

@article{l2021reassessing,
  title  = {Reassessing Anne Clifford’s Books: The Discovery of a New Manuscript Inventory},
  author = {Malay, Jessica L.},
  year   = {2021},
  journal = {The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America},
  doi    = {10.1086/712910}
}

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