Women / Persons ~ P14858

Lady Brilliana Harley

Alternate Names:

Brilliana Conway

Gender: Female

Life Dates: ca. 1598 - 1643

Types:

English
Heroine in war
Model of faith, piety
Wife, Honorable and Dedicated
Wife of notable man
Writer, Epistolary

Note: In the absence of her husband and son, successfully defended her castle for three months against Royalist troops during the English Civil War; wrote over 375 letters to her husband and son

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Biographies (3 Total)

Brilliana Conway Author: Gabrielle Festing . Collection Title: Unstoried in History: Portraits of Some Famous Women of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. 1901
Lady Brilliana Harley Author: William Wilson . Collection Title: Heroines of the Household. 1864
Lady Harley Author: William Chapman . Collection Title: Notable Women of the Puritan Times. 1883