...5. ‘The Great Picture’, commissioned by Anne Clifford. Reproduced by permission of the Abbott Hall Museum This chapter discusses two writers who have not usually been considered in the same frame as politics, Brilliana Harley and Anne Clifford. They, and the language they use, are test cases...

... William John Oglander Frances Pelham Brilliana Harley Helioganrith Smith Fulke Reed William Weld George Rawdon library portraits Miereveldt When the Spanish Match negotiations were called off, Conway led the campaign for military action, joining the committee on foreign affairs in November 1623...