Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke

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Standard Name: Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert,,, Countess of
Birth Name: Mary Sidney
Married Name: Mary Herbert
Titled: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Titled: Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney wrote with a generation of Protestant women models behind her.
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, http://U of A HSS.
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But her reputation, even her literary existence, has been eclipsed by the almost mythic fame of her brother Philip. He was older, publicly known, and universally admired even before his death. He published nothing; his writings reached the wider world by passing through the hands of his sister and of their friend Fulke Greville . Her writings encompass wholly independent texts, collaborations with Philip, and her revisions of work by him. The dates at which she wrote them are mostly debatable. But unlike any other Elizabethan noblewoman, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, published her non-religious works as well as her religious. Her work in translation (not only the psalms); and in lyric poetry and heroic drama (perhaps in pastoral romance as well) helped shape the mainstream literary tradition.

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Intertextuality and Influence Anne Bradstreet
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Porter
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
Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. T. N. Longman and O. Rees.
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(thus recognising...
Literary responses Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
Sir John Davies of Hereford, in dedicating The Muses Sacrifice, 1612, to Elizabeth Lady Cary, Lady Pembroke , and Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford , praised Cary's plays as a source of pride to...
Occupation Sir Philip Sidney
In this role he was remarkably versatile: high romance in the Arcadia (written between 1578 and 1582), religious feeling and metrical experiment in the psalms which he began translating with his sister, sophisticated criticism in...
Occupation Lady Anne Clifford
LAC attended the funeral of Anne of Denmark ; here she enjoyed much talk with my Old Lady of Pembroke
Clifford, Lady Anne. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition. Editor Acheson, Katherine O., Garland.
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and other acquaintances: she notes this to be the last time she saw Lady Pembroke.
Clifford, Lady Anne. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition. Editor Acheson, Katherine O., Garland.
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Occupation John Donne
The highly literary great ladies of the Renaissance were part of Donne's writing environment. His predecessors in metrical experiment included Mary, Countess of Pembroke . He wrote in praise of her and of minor court...
Occupation Christopher Marlowe
It may have been as an undergraduate that CM began writing work that was later published. His several translations from Latin included love-poetry by Ovid . He soon moved on from poetry to drama, and...
Occupation Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
Elizabeth Cary was mentioned by John Davies of Hereford in 1612 (with Lady Pembroke and Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford ) as a leading patron.
Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, pp. 1 - 59; various pages.
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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, pp. 1 - 59; various pages.
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Occupation Petrarch
The acclaim that Petrarch won in his lifetime shifted smoothly into a high reputation after his death. The first English author to refer to him was Chaucer .
Nicholl, Charles. “On the Sixth Day”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 23-6.
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He was a vital inspiration to...
Publishing Lady Mary Wroth
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...
Reception Anna Hume
AH 's vigorous heroic couplets were called the finest version of Petrarch before the twentieth century by George Watson in his bibliography of Petrarch in English, 1967.
Watson, George. The English Petrarchans. Warburg Institute.
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(Watson noted a marked avoidance of direct...
Reception Mary Oxlie
This work listed MO as one of its Women among the moderns eminent for poetry. Phillips, nephew and pupil of John Milton , seems quite interested in the existence of women poets. Others in his...
Textual Features Anna Hume
AH 's version of Petrarch is both forceful and stylistically elegant, even when dealing in conventional style with the pangs of love. Her opening lines have a vigorous forward movement which is perhaps superior even...
Textual Features Alice Sutcliffe
After the dedication follow acrostics by AS on the names of her two dedicatees and on that of the Lord Chamberlain, Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery (who was the husband of Lady Anne Clifford
Textual Features Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
In a dedication to her grandchildren (unpaginated), BBBD gives some history of her translations, made at different and distant periods of my life.
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre,. Translations from the Italian. C. Whittingham.
prelims
She cites Mathias , Foscolo , and Panizzi , for...

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