Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Cultural formation | Celia Fiennes | 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 |
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... |
Dedications | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
, presented a fine copy of the psalms written by herself and her brother
to Queen Elizabeth
, with a dedication to her. Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990. 95 |
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... |
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. 41 |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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 | 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. 20 |
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. 7 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | Her famous brother, Sir Philip Sidney
, who was seven years her senior, was universally admired as a courtier and writer. |
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 | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | While still in her twenties, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
, lost in succession her father, her mother, and her brother Philip
. Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990. 55, 57 |
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... |