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
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...
Friends, Associates
Sir Philip Sidney
He became a friend at Shrewsbury of Fulke Greville
and was a contemporary at Oxford of such later luminaries as Richard Hakluyt
, Thomas Bodley
, and Walter Raleigh
. He made other intellectual friends...
Intertextuality and Influence
Aldous Huxley
Some critics consider this AH
's finest work, a point of intersection between his social satires and his portraits of cynical characters who eventually journey to mysticism. It has an epigraph from Fulke Greville
about...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anna Maria Mackenzie
The title-page quotes four lines about Virtue from Mustapha by Fulke Greville, first Baron Brooke
. A single-paragraph Advertisement, written in the third person, reveals the author's gender and thanks the public for the favourable...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sally Purcell
The short poems of this collection are, as usual with SP
, highly allusive. Dr Dee
II and Dr Dee III again deal with sixteenth-century magic. Other pieces respond to writing by other poets: to...
Author summary
Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney wrote with a generation of Protestant women models behind her.
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.
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But her reputation, even her literary existence, has been eclipsed by the almost mythic fame of her brother Philip. He was older...
Publishing
Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
, Fulke Greville
, and others published the first printing of the Arcadia by her late brother Philip
, perhaps with her editing, up to midway in book three.
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.