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Lady Mary Sidney

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • Mary Herbert in [Aubrey's "Brief Lives"]
  • Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Frances Berkeley Young, 1912.
  • Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century, ed. Douglas Brooks-Davies, 1992.
  • Bibliography for Mary Sidney

Lady Mary Sidney, c.1590, by Nicholas Hilliard.
From Tudor Place. Also here.

Lady Mary Sidney (see here and here),
the poet and translator,
born 27th Oct 1561,
mar 21st Apr 1577 [his 3rd mar, him age 43, her age 15, but marriage seems to have been happy]
to Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke [born 1534] and had issue.

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c.1618 portrait

Lady Mary Sidney, c.1618.
From Tudor Place.

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• Female Dramatists of the English Seventeenth Century