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Biographical
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Philip's
Phoenix : Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke
by Margaret P. Hannay
Hardcover - 344 pages
Oxford Univ Pr on Demand; January 1990
"In contrast to previous studies that
have portrayed Mary Sidney as a
demure, retiring woman, this biography shows that she was actually
an outspoken and dynamic figure. Basing her work on primary sources
including account books, legal documents, diaries, and family letters,
Hannay shows that Sidney was a vibrant, eloquent, self-assertive
woman who was deeply involved in Protestant
politics. Although she
did confine her writings to appropriately feminine genres, she called
herself "Sister of Philip Sidney" to establish a literary and political
identity. As a Phoenix rising from her brother's ashes, she transcended
gender restrictions by publishing her brother's writings, by writing
and
translating works which he would have approved, by assuming his role
as literary patron, and by supporting the cause for which he died.
Hannay also reveals--via court cases--that in her final years the
countess
turned from literary to administrative responsibilities, contending
with
jewel thieves, pirates, and murderers. "—The Publisher.
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Works
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Isabella
Whitney, Mary Sidney and Aemilia Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets
(Penguin Classics)
Danielle Clarke (Editor)
Paperback
Penguin USA; 2001
"Social convention may have prevented
Renaissance women writers from
openly taking part in the political and religious debates of their day,
but
they found varied and innovative ways to intervene. Collecting
the work
of three great poets-Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney, and Aemilia Lanyer-
this volume repositions women writers of the Renaissance by presenting
their poems in the context of their history and culture." —The
Publisher.
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The
Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke, Vol 1 :
Poems, Translations and Correspondence
(Oxford English Texts)
by Mary Sidney Herbert,
Margaret P. Hannay (Editor), Noel J. Kinnamon (Editor)
Hardcover Vol 1 Clarendon Press; May 1998
"This scholarly edition in two volumes is the first to
include all her extant works: Volume I prints her three
original poems, the disputed "Dolefull Lay of Clorinda,"
her translations from Petrarch, Mornay, and Garnier,
and all her known letters. Volume II contains her
metrical paraphrases of Psalms 44-150. The edition
also provides a biographical introduction, discussion
of her sources and methods of composition, textual
annotation, and a detailed commentary."
—The Publisher
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The
Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke, Vol 2 :
The Psalms of David
(Oxford English Texts)
by Mary Sidney Herbert,
Margaret P. Hannay (Editor), Noel J. Kinnamon (Editor)
Hardcover Vol 2 Clarendon Press; May 1998
"This scholarly edition in two volumes is the first to
include all her extant works: Volume I prints her three
original poems, the disputed "Dolefull Lay of Clorinda,"
her translations from Petrarch, Mornay, and Garnier,
and all her known letters. Volume II contains her
metrical paraphrases of Psalms 44-150. The edition
also provides a biographical introduction, discussion
of her sources and methods of composition, textual
annotation, and a detailed commentary."
—The Publisher
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Mary
Sidney, Countess of Pembroke & Sir Philip Sidney:
The Sidney Psalms
by R. E. Pritchard (Editor), Mary Sidney Herbert Pembroke
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center; January 1992
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Critical Studies
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Women
Writers of the English Renaissance
(Twayne's English Authors Series, No 521)
by Kim Walker
Hardcover - 260 pages
Twayne Pub; July 1996
"In a careful, current, and
wide-ranging survey of Renaissance
women writers, Walker examines the social, educational,
economic, and ideological constraints under which women
wrote; their attempts to move from the margin to the center
of literary production; and their establishment of careers as
professional writers. Both major and minor writers - poets,
diarists, letter writers, romance writers, playwrights, and
biographers - are discussed here in revealing, reliable, and
provocative ways. Major writers including Mary Sidney,
Elizabeth Cary, and Mary Wroth are presented in a new,
more broad perspective." —The Publisher.
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Gender
and Authorship in the Sidney Circle
by Mary Ellen Lamb
Paperback - 297 pages
Univ of Wisconsin Pr; February 1991
"This study demonstrates the extent
to which reading and
writing were gendered acts in 16th- and early 17th-century
England. Renaissance gender ideology did not prevent
women from writing altogether, but it affected all writing by
creating different standards of acceptability for female writers
than for their male counterparts. Lamb explores the effect of
this gendered ideology of authors in a famous Renaissance
family - the Sidneys: Sir Philip Sidney, his sister, the Countess
of Pembroke, and his niece, Mary Wroth, two notable and
productive women authors of the time. Unlike other works
which analyze gender only in terms of women's writing,
Mary Lamb explores gender as a determining force in the
works of both men and women of the Sidney circle. "
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Dramatic
Difference : Gender, Class, and Genre
in the Early Modern Closet Drama
by Karen Raber
Hardcover
Univ of Delaware Press; November 2001
"Given the often crucial role of gender in establishing
and policing the categories, closet drama provides
twentieth-century feminist scholars and critics of
the theater a sensitive instrument for examining the
difference gender makes when women writers join
their male peers in authoring dramatic texts."
—The Publisher.
[Includes a chapter entitled "Domestic Drama:
The Politics of Mary Sidney's Antonie". —AJ]
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