The Countess of Pembroke's patronage was marked by eulogies and dedications (more than thirty) from many writers, including Ben Jonson
, Nicholas Breton
, and Samuel Daniel
. Daniel later told her elder son that...
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Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
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...
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Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
Again a very much earlier date is also possible.
Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, 1979, http://BLC.
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Authorship has also been questioned, but Waller
and Hannay
both think the evidence for Mary Sidney's authorship is strong.
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.
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Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, 1979, http://BLC.
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Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of. “Introduction”. The Triumph of Death, edited by Gary F. Waller, University of Salzburg, 1977, pp. 1-64.
Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, 1979, http://BLC.
Wroth, Lady Mary. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. Editor Waller, Gary F., University of Salzburg, 1977.
Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of. The Triumph of Death. Editor Waller, Gary F., University of Salzburg, 1977.