The World Turned Upside Down - The British Civil Wars 1638-1651

Brilliana Harley – A woman of faith and substance


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Brilliana Harley was one of the heroines of the British and Irish civil wars. A deeply religious woman, in her husband’s absence, Brilliana successfully held off a royalist siege of her family home at Brampton Bryan in Herefordshire for three months during 1643. During these weeks she vividly described these events and even rejected a ... Read more
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