Brilliana, Lady Harley

Brilliana, Lady Harley is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty, political ambition and government, and court politics and dynastic power. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In Anne O’Brien’s Marriage Under Siege, Brilliana Harley remains at Brampton Bryan Castle while her Parliamentarian husband Sir Robert Harley is in London.