Mary Sidney was the most important non-royal woman writer and patron in Elizabethan England. Without appearing to transgress the strictures against women's writing, she composed a sizable body of work...
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In the following excerpt, Young conducts a brief review of both Sidney's career and the scholarship that had unearthed her manuscripts and significance by the early twentieth century.
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In the following introduction to his edition of Sidney's poetry, Waller presents an extensive survey of Sidney's work with a short biography. His careful attention to each of her major w...
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In the excerpt that follows, Hogrefe reconstructs Sidney's centrality as a patron in the world of Elizabethan letters by examining a selection of the many dedications that leading writers of th...
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In the following in-depth study of Sidney's Psalms, Fisken argues that, as a translator Sidney both respected the conventions of her era, which demanded self-effacement, and exceeded them with ...
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In the following essay, Fisken discerns a strain of subversiveness in "To the Angell Spirit, " which she describes as "the disjunction between Mary Sidney's internalized de...
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Mary Sidney
Critical Essay by Frances Berkeley Young
