Sir Philip Sidney

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...

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...

In addition to her experiment in manufacturing development, she also undertook literary patronage while in Ireland. She took an interest in, and accepted the dedication of A Sixth Booke to the Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia...

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 selection runs from Edward the Confessor to Samuel Daniel . (The title-page mentions Gower , Langland, and Chaucer.) For each poet she provides a short biography and a scholarly and critical preface. Her judgements...

During her first marriage LAC was often alone. She had books read aloud to her while she sewed: history, theology, Montaigne 's Essays, Spenser 's Faerie Queene, Chaucer 's works, Sidney 's Arcadia...

AB dated An Elegy Upon Sir Philip Sidney.

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...

She had already written in her diary about copying, in oils, a portrait drawing from an edition of Sir Philip Sidney 's Arcadia.