Ann Fanshawe
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Ann Fanshawe (née Harrison) (March 25, 1625 – 1680) was an English
memoirist.
In 1644 she married her second cousin, Richard (later Sir Richard) Fanshawe (1608–1666), Secretary of War to Prince Charles
. After her husband's death, Ann wrote in 1676 a manuscript Memoir (today held in the British Library) of him for private family circulation: this provided a colourful account of their extraordinary adventures, as well as giving carefully observed details of clothing and customs encountered in their travels.
There is a modern edition of the Memoirs:
England
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memoirist.
In 1644 she married her second cousin, Richard (later Sir Richard) Fanshawe (1608–1666), Secretary of War to Prince Charles
Charles II of England
Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...
. After her husband's death, Ann wrote in 1676 a manuscript Memoir (today held in the British Library) of him for private family circulation: this provided a colourful account of their extraordinary adventures, as well as giving carefully observed details of clothing and customs encountered in their travels.
There is a modern edition of the Memoirs:
- Halkett, Anne Murray and Ann Fanshawe. Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, ed. John Loftis. Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN 0-19-812087-7
Further reading
- Peter Davidson, ‘Fanshawe , Ann, Lady Fanshawe (1625–1680)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 Nov 2006
- Sharon Cadman Seelig, Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women's Lives, 1600-1680. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-85695-7
External links
- Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid- at Project GutenbergProject GutenbergProject Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books...