Back ماري سيدني Arabic مارى سيدنى ARZ Мери Сидни Bulgarian Mary Sidney Catalan Mary Sidney Welsh Mary Sidney German Mary Sidney Spanish Mary Sidney Basque Mary Sidney French מרי סידני, רוזנת פמברוק HE
Mary Herbert | |
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 Portrait of Mary Herbert (née Sidney), by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1590. | |
| Countess of Pembroke | |
| Tenure | April 1577 - 19 January 1601 |
| Known for | Literary patron, author |
| Born | 27 October 1561 Tickenhill Palace, Bewdley, England |
| Died | 25 September 1621 (aged 59) London, England |
| Buried | Salisbury Cathedral |
| Noble family | Sidney |
| Spouse(s) | Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke |
| Issue | William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke Katherine Herbert Anne Herbert Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke |
| Father | Henry Sidney |
| Mother | 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 John Bodenham's verse miscellany Belvidere.[1] Her play Antonius (a translation of Robert Garnier's Marc Antoine) is widely seen as reviving interest in soliloquy based on classical models and as a likely source of Samuel Daniel's closet drama Cleopatra (1594) and of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1607).[A] She was also known for translating Petrarch's "Triumph of Death", for the poetry anthology Triumphs, and above all for a lyrical, metrical translation of the Psalms.
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