CF
's family were upper-class, linked to the nobility: distinguished anti-monarchists and dissenters
. She took her religion seriously: at the sight of a monument to Fulke Greville
which boasted his friendship with Sir Philip Sidney
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.
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Dedications
Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
She dedicated it to Henrietta Maria Bowdler
, less in honour of Bowdler herself than in honour of her friendship with and literary executorship of the scholar Elizabeth Smith
; she compares their relationship to...
Dedications
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...
Education
Mary Rich Countess of Warwick
Mary Boyle grew up until well into her teens (1638) on a farm near Cork, living in the family of tenants of her father. She was soburly [sic] educated; it is not clear...
Education
Mary Matilda Betham
She had already written in her diary about copying, in oils, a portrait drawing from an edition of Sir Philip Sidney
's Arcadia.
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905.
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Education
Jane Porter
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...
Education
Eleanor Farjeon
EF
did not attend school, but read in complete freedom from adult control. She read Philip Sidney
's Arcadia before the age of ten. Her father used to give each of his children a new...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Mary Wroth
Her uncle Sir Philip Sidney
, who died almost exactly a year before her birth,
Hannay, Margaret P. Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth. Ashgate, 2010.
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also contributed to her sense of herself as a writer.
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland
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
Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Hoby
Three months after her first husband's death, the twenty-year-old Margaret Devereux (later MH
) married Thomas Sidney
(younger brother of the poets Sir Philip Sidney
and Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke
).
Hoby, Margaret. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605, edited by Joanna Moody, Sutton, 1998, p. xv - lvii.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Martha Moulsworth
Her father, Robert Dorset or Dorsett, was a gentleman, a Church of England clergyman at Ewelme, and a Doctor of Divinity from Oxford. He had tutored and corresponded with Sir Philip Sidney
.
Depas-Orange, Ann. “Moulsworth’s Life and Times”. "The Birthday of my Self": Martha Moulsworth, Renaissance Poet, edited by Ann Depas-Orange and Robert C. Evans, Critical Matrix, 1996, pp. 7-10.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Queen Elizabeth I
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ephelia
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...
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
By November 1651: Anna Weamys, aged about twenty, published...
Women writers item
By November 1651
Anna Weamys
, aged about twenty, published as a young gentle-woman, Mrs. A.W., A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney
's Arcadia.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
“Early English Books Online”. ProQuest Databases.
19 June 1725: Dorothy Stanley, née Milborne, published...
Women writers item
19 June 1725
Dorothy Stanley
, née Milborne, published by subscription Sir Philip Sidney
's Arcadia Moderniz'd, in four books (coinciding with the thirteenth edition of the original romance).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Mitchell, Marea. “Dorothy Stanleys Enterprise: Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia Modernizd (1725)”. Sidney Journal, No. 28, 2010, pp. 63-76.
Mitchell, Marea. “Awakening Other Spirits: Dorothy Stanleys Arcadia and the Apparatus of Authorship”. Parergon, No. 29, 2012, pp. 113-31.
Texts
Sidney, Sir Philip. Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney. Editor Porter, Jane, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807, 2 vols.
Sidney, Sir Philip. Astrophel and Stella. Editor Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, Thomas Newman, 1591.
Sidney, Sir Philip. “Critical Materials”. The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, edited by William A., Jr Ringler, Clarendon Press, 1962, p. various pages.
Sidney, Sir Philip. “Editorial Materials”. Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones and Jan Van Dorsten, Clarendon Press, 1973, p. various pages.
“Introduction”. The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, edited by John C. A. Rathmell, translated by. Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, New York University Press, 1963, p. xi - xxxii.
Sidney, Sir Philip. “Introduction”. The Countesse of Pembroke’s Arcadia, edited by Victor Skretkowicz, Clarendon Press, 1987.
Rock Honeycomb. Editor Ruskin, John, Translators Sidney, Sir Philip and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Ellis and White, 1877.
Sidney, Sir Philip. The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. William Ponsonbie, 1590.
Sidney, Sir Philip. The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Editor Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, William Ponsonbie, 1598.
Sidney, Sir Philip. The Defence of Poesie. Editor Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, William Ponsonby, 1595.
The Psalmes of David. Editor Singer, Samuel Weller, Translators Sidney, Sir Philip and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Robert Triphook, 1823.
