Sir Philip Sidney

Their mother, when she was widowed, moved her family to Edinburgh in 1780, partly for the sake of the future advantage of a good education at a moderate expense. In Scotland, wrote JP later, a...

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...

This was in two volumes, from Longman . A second edition followed four years later. At that time it seems JP was planning also to edit both Sidney 's poems and his Arcadia, and...

In the same volume as her poems, LHP 's scribe copied the first part of The Unfortunate Florinda. Pulter herself made some corrections, and her unfinished draft of the second part, on loose sheets...

This is a sequence of poems about unidealised rural life, with no obvious allusion to Sir Philip Sidney . Robinson later claimed that all of the characters were based on human models observed during...

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...

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

It was hastily produced, incomplete, with sonnet-sequences attached. Urania occupied 558 tightly-printed pages. The elaborate pictorial title-page engraved by Simon Pass mentions the names of LMW 's writing uncle and aunt together with her own...

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...