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Lady Mary Sidney

Lady Mary Sidney,
the poet and translator,
born 27 Oct 1561.
See wikipedia.
She mar 21 Apr 1577 to Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and had issue.
At marriage she was age 15. He was age over 36.

Lady Mary Sidney, c.1590, by Nicholas Hilliard.
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Lady Mary Sidney.
Print by Jean de Courbes.
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See copy at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Lady Mary Sidney.
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"Portrait of A Lady Called Mary Countess of Pembroke 1619".
By Cornelius Johnson.
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Portrait of 1618

Lady Mary Sidney, 1618.
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Lady Mary Sidney, 1618.
Mirrored. See full size and original.
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Marcus Gheeraerts portrait

Lady Mary Sidney.
Painted probably by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.
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Lady Mary Sidney.
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Beatrix Louisa Lambton dressed as Lady Mary Sidney, "after a painting by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger". Photo 1897.
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Sources yet to be consulted

• Mary Herbert in [Aubrey's "Brief Lives"]. See pages 138-139 and 140 of 1950 edn.
• Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Frances Berkeley Young, 1912.
• Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century, ed. Douglas Brooks-Davies, 1992.
• Bibliography for Mary Sidney

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• Mary Sidney