Quote Integration Activity (Example)

1. Pull a sentence or two from one of your sources and paste them below.

James judged against her, and she was disinherited despute her withholding of consent to the
settlement. Yet precisely because she withheld consent, Clifford was able to inherit her title
and estates thirty-eight years later, after the death of Francis and his son Henry…who was
survived by a daughter; Clifford’s father had stipulated that the estates revert to her if
Francis’s male line failed.

2. Choose the part you would like to quote and paste it below in quotation marks – this can be
continuous or have different parts you would like to quote with your own words in between
(see examples). Include a short sentence or two after your quotes that explain what
information you are choosing to highlight with your choice.

“James judged against her, and she was disinherited dispute her withholding of consent to the
settlement.”
“Clifford was able to inherit her title and estates thirty-eight years later,”
“Clifford’s father had stipulated that the estates revert to her if Francis’s male line failed.”

These quotes highlight that Anne Clifford lost her rightful inheritance because King James decided
to go rule against a previous entail which gave the estate (Knole) to her and instead granted the land
to Anne’s uncle and then cousin. Clifford’s experience shows a history of men receiving the proper
inheritance of women even when there were laws in place to hand the inheritance down to the next
descendent regardless of sex.

3. Write three sentences and incorporate the quote. These sentences should include a build up
sentence that sets the stage for the quote, the sentence with the quote in it, and a wrap up
sentence that helps explain to the reader what the quote says and why it is relevant.

Despite an entail established by Edward II which required all Clifford titles and estates to be
inherited by direct descendants regardless of gender, Anne Clifford was denied her title and
inheritance in favor of her uncle Francis Clifford (Sizuku 2001: 196). Though her father, George,
Third Earl of Cumberland, broke the law in passing her inheritance to Francis, Anne’s attempts to
regain her estate through legal methods failed as “James judged against her, and she was disinherited
despite her withholding of consent to the settlement” and was unable to regain her title and estates
until “thirty-eight years later, after the death of Francis and his son Henry” as her father had claimed
the inheritance would “revert to her if Francis’ male line failed” (Sizuku 2001: 196). Clifford’s legal
struggle to regain her rightful inheritance demonstrates the same difficulty faced by Sackville-West in
her desire to inherit her childhood home Knole.