Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley: Wife of Sir Robert Harley, of Brampton Bryan, Knight of the Bath - Scholar's Choice Edition

by Brilliana Harley

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330 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1854

About the author

Brilliana, Lady Harley was born in 1598 at Brill, near Rotterdam in the Netherlands, while her father Sir Edward Conway (later Viscount Conway) was Governor there.

Some 375 of her letters to her husband and her son Edward Harley survive and show her to be an educated literary woman, at home in several languages. She was able to keep her husband informed of local political affairs when he was absent from home at Brampton Bryan in northwest Herefordshire, attending Parliament or for other reasons, and organised the collection on information locally for the Parliamentary Committee on Scandalous Ministers. She was deeply religious, and her letters frequently repeat religious sentiments and encourage her family in their chosen Puritan practices. The letters also contain passages relating to personal details of their family life.