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- Mary Dudley Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (née Sidney, 27 October 1561 – 25 September 1621) was among the first Englishwomen to gain notice for her poetry and her literary patronage.
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Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (née Sidney, 27 October 1561 – 25 September 1621) was among the first Englishwomen to gain notice for her poetry and her literary patronage.
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- Salisbury Cathedral
- 19 January 1601 - 19 January 1601
- Henry Sidney
Apr 1, 2024 · Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke (born Oct. 27, 1561, near Bewdley, Worcestershire, Eng.—died Sept. 25, 1621, London) was a patron of the arts and scholarship, poet, and translator. She was the sister of Sir Philip Sidney, who dedicated to her his Arcadia.
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1561–1621. Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke by Nicholas Hilliard, circa 1590. © National Portrait Gallery, London. Mary Sidney was the most important non-royal woman writer and patron in Elizabethan England.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) By Margaret P. Hannay Mary Sidney Herbert, the first English woman to achieve a significant literary reputation, is celebrated for her patronage, for her translations, for her original poems praising Queen Elizabeth and her brother Philip, and especially for her metrical paraphrase of the ...
Apr 26, 2021 · The extraordinary Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (1561 – 1621), was an almost exact contemporary of Shakespeare and has been one of the candidates in various conspiracy theories for the actual author of Shakespeare’s works, in particular his sonnets.
Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke, was known to be a hot-tempered redhead, brilliant, multi-talented, strong, dynamic, passionate, generous, and a bit arrogant. She was born three years before Shakespeare and died five years after.
Sep 15, 2017 · Her descendants are still earls of Pembroke and Montgomery. Mary Sidney was one of the most significant female figures of the Tudor world, not least because of her tireless patronage to poets, writers and playwrights.
