Sir Philip Sidney

JP 's original dedication invoked the memory of Sir Philip Sidney , who did not disdain to write a romance and who consigned his excellent Work to the Affection of a Sister (thus recognising...

Again, her poems make up a series with a single speaker: a youngish woman living on a remote farm with practically no social context beyond animals and her mother. When she falls in love it...

AB was writing poetry while still in her teens. Langland 's Piers Plowman, Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke (whose mother, like AB , was born a Dudley), and Camden 's life...

Her letters to Locke begin under the sign of romance, with the choice of a pseudonym probably taken from Sir Philip Sidney 's Arcadia and an allusion (turning on the behaviour of people in love)...

Wroth's choice of the prose romance genre comes from her uncle ; but her work was also a scandal chronicle or roman à clef. It has autobiographical elements too, like her portrayal of herself as...

When Philip Sidney died, his English metrical version of the psalms had got as far as number 43. Whatever the extent of his sister's contribution before that, she did the psalms from number 44 (about...

On 15 October 1579 ES told his long-standing friend Gabriel Harvey that he had struck up a friendship with two more young men who cared about literature, Sir Philip Sidney and Edward Dyer . He...

Three months after her first husband's death, the twenty-year-old Margaret Devereux (later MH ) married Thomas Sidney (younger brother of the poets Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke ).

The Sidney family was in fact a kind of royalty of literature. Dorothy's Sidney grandfather was a poet, and the fame of her great-uncle and great-aunt Sir Philip and Mary Sidney, later Countess of Pembroke

Her uncle Sir Philip Sidney , who died almost exactly a year before her birth, also contributed to her sense of herself as a writer.

Her father, Robert Dorset or Dorsett, was a gentleman, a Church of England clergyman at Ewelme, and a Doctor of Divinity from Oxford. He had tutored and corresponded with Sir Philip Sidney .

In the minds of the country's ruling class, a marriage for the queen was also necessary. Some have supposed that at this stage Elizabeth may have hoped to marry one day, although she herself publicly...

While still in her twenties, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , lost in succession her father, her mother, and her brother Philip .

Her famous brother, Sir Philip Sidney , who was seven years her senior, was universally admired as a courtier and writer.

Lady Mary's mother, an heiress, was born Lady Katherine (Kate) Manners . She had literary interests, and transcribed, for instance, passages from Sir Philip Sidney 's Arcadia. After her husband's violent death she married...