Ann Fanshawe

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 [http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/genesis/search/$-search-results.cfm?CCODE=2386 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, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9146 ‘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

* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6064 Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid] - at Project Gutenberg