Sir Philip Sidney

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , issued her collected edition of her brother 's works: the title was still The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, with sundry new additions.

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , commemorated her brother in a pastoral ode, The Doleful Lay of the Fair Clorinda.

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.

Sir Philip Sidney 's early death set the seal on his charismatic myth, and left his sister, Mary, Countess of Pembroke , a legacy of literary projects to complete.

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...

After two years at Wilton House in mourning for her brother , Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , came back to London.

She went on working at them later, developing her skills as she went on, and doing a great deal of revision. Her critic Gary F. Waller believes that she kept two working drafts simultaneously in...

Phillips may have been commissioned to finish the collection after the death of FNBA : he worked for London publishers, and wrote several commemorative poems for the recently dead, including Sir Philip Sidney . Scholars...