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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. By the age of 39, she was listed with her brother Philip Sidney and with Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare among the notable authors of the day in ...
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- 19 January 1601 - 19 January 1601
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Mary Sidney was the most important non-royal woman writer and patron in Elizabethan England. Without appearing to transgress the strictures against women's writing, she composed a sizable body of work, evading criticism by focusing on religious themes and by confining her work to the genres thought appropriate to women: translation, dedication, elegy, and encomium.
Her uncle Leicester subsequently arranged her marriage on 21 April 1577 to the wealthy Earl of Pembroke, Leicester's friend and contemporary. Mary Sidney thereby became, at age 15, Countess of Pembroke and mistress of Wilton, the primary Pembroke estate, as well as Baynards Castle in London and many smaller properties.
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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. Even though this is nonsense, Mary Sidney, sister of the more famous Philip, was ...
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. After his death she published it and completed his verse translation of the Psalms.
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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. For two decades, she developed and led the most important literary circle in England’s history ...
MARY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. BORN: 1561 DIED: 1621 . Sister of Sir Philip Sidney.Edited her brother's work Arcadia and published several translations of her own, as well as an elegy on her brother's death.
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