Brilliana Lady Harley

01 January 1598 - 09 October 1643

Standard Name: Harley, Brilliana,,, Lady

Birth Name: Brilliana Conway

Married Name: Brilliana Harley

Titled: Brilliana, Lady Harley

Indexed Name: Brilliana, Lady Harley

BLH is remembered for her letters, written to her husband and son during a period of nearly twenty years in the mid seventeenth century. She also made translations, chiefly of religious texts, and kept a commonplace-book along similar lines.

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Family and Intimate relationships	Anne Conway	He was of English and Welsh descent, a large landowner both in England and Ireland, and nephew of the letter-writer Brilliana Harley . His family's royalist allegiance had done them damage, but he energetically...

Timeline

September 1643

Parliament entered into the Solemn League and Covenant with the Scots, which committed them to accepting the reformed religion (i.e. Presbyterianism ) in Scotland and establishing it in England.

Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.

112-3

Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.

233

April 1644

The British Parliament passed an act against a heathenish vanity, generally abused to superstition and wickedness—the erections of maypoles for spring dancing and revelry.

Rogers, Pat. “The Maypole in the Strand”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.

, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2005, pp. 83-95.

84-5

Texts

Lewis, Thomas Taylor, and Brilliana, Lady Harley. “Introduction”. Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley, Camden Society, 1854, p. v - xxix.

Harley, Brilliana, Lady. Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley. Editor Lewis, Thomas Taylor, Camden Society, 1854.