Henry Sidney, first Earl of Romney

Dorothy's four surviving brothers adhered to different parts of their father's divided loyalties. Philip , the eldest (and heir to the title although he quarrelled bitterly with his father), fought on the parliamentarian side in...

DSCS suffered a serious attack of ague (fever). To her brother Henry she attributed her recovery to a medicine referred to at the time as the Jesuits' powders , which had also cured Charles II

DSCS 's first surviving letter to her much younger brother Henry Sidney (later Earl of Romney) reported on a serious illness of the king 's. She followed this with political news, including details on the...

Most of DSCS 's extant writings are letters, dated 1679-80, which she wrote to her brother Henry Sidney and her son-in-law, George Savile, Marquess of Halifax . These were eventful years, with war in progress...