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Sir John Harington
Standard Name: Harington, Sir John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Edith Lyttelton | EL
's ancestors were Scottish; they hailed from Midlothian. They claimed kinship with David Balfour, the hero of Robert Louis Stevenson
's Kidnapped, and Sir John Harington
, the Elizabethan inventor of the water closet. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Hester Pulter | LHP
's elder sister Margaret (later, by marriage, Margaret Hobson
) had the distinction of being the recipient or dedicatee of Milton
's sonnet in praise of her father. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
| Literary responses | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | The fact that Mary Sidney did not print the psalms, as she did her brother's poems, says something about her attitudes both to print and to her own ranked and gendered identity as an author... |
Timeline
Early August 1591
Sir John Harington
's translation of Ariosto
's heroicromanceOrlando Furioso (which means something like Roland Run Mad) was published.