Sir Philip Sidney

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.

Her uncle Sir Philip Sidney , who died almost exactly a year before her birth, also contributed to her sense of herself as a writer.

On 15 October 1579 ES told his long-standing friend Gabriel Harvey that he had struck up a friendship with two more young men who cared about literature, Sir Philip Sidney and Edward Dyer . He...

Wroth's choice of the prose romance genre comes from her uncle ; but her work was also a scandal chronicle or roman à clef. It has autobiographical elements too, like her portrayal of herself as...

Again, her poems make up a series with a single speaker: a youngish woman living on a remote farm with practically no social context beyond animals and her mother. When she falls in love it...

Her letters to Locke begin under the sign of romance, with the choice of a pseudonym probably taken from Sir Philip Sidney 's Arcadia and an allusion (turning on the behaviour of people in love)...

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...

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 (thus recognising...

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...

Ruskin showed his admiration of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 's psalms (not thinking them hers, but all Philip Sidney 's) by publishing a selection as Rock Honeycomb.

Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. It is clear...

During her first marriage LAC was often alone. She had books read aloud to her while she sewed: history, theology, Montaigne 's Essays, Spenser 's Faerie Queene, Chaucer 's works, Sidney 's Arcadia...

In addition to her experiment in manufacturing development, she also undertook literary patronage while in Ireland. She took an interest in, and accepted the dedication of A Sixth Booke to the Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia...

JP was largely an early nineteenth-century author: though she reached print before the end of the previous century, she let her younger and more prolific sister get the start of her in publishing. She wrote...