Ann Fanshawe
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Ann (or Anne) 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:
- Halkett, Anne Murray and Ann Fanshawe. Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, ed. John Loftis. Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN 0198120877
[edit] 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 0521856957
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