The Ashgate research companion to the Sidneys, 1500-1700. Lives / Volume 1, (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Research companion to the Sidneys, 1500-1700; Sidneys, 1500-1700; Lives
• Further Information: Note: Michael G. Brennan, Mary Ellen Lamb ; edited by Margaret P. Hannay.
• Authors: Brennan, Michael G; Lamb, Mary Ellen, 1946-
• Editors: Hannay, Margaret P, 1944-
• Contents: Contents: Preface. Part I Overview: Family networks: The Sidneys, Dudleys, and Herberts, Michael G. Brennan. Part II Biographies: Sir Henry Sidney (1529-1586), Valerie McGowan-Doyle; Mary Dudley Sidney (c. 1531-1586) and her siblings, Carole Levin and Catherine Medici; Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Alan Stewart; Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621), Countess of Pembroke, Margaret P. Hannay; Those Essex girls: the lives and letters of Lettice Knollys, Penelope Rich, Dorothy Perrott Percy, and Frances Walsingham, Grace Ioppolo; The life of Robert Sidney (1563-1626), first Earl of Leicester, Robert Shephard; Barbara Gamage Sidney (c. 1562-1621), Countess of Leicester, Elizabeth Sidney Manners (1585-1612), Countess of Rutland, and Lady Mary Sidney Wroth (1587-1651), Margaret P. Hannay; Robert Sidney (1595-1677), second Earl of Leicester, Germaine Warkentin; A triptych of Dorothy Percy Sidney (1598-1659), Countess of Leicester, Lucy Percy Hay (1599-1660), Countess of Carlisle, and Dorothy Sidney Spencer (1617-1684), Countess of Sunderland, Nadine Akkerman; Algernon Sidney’s life and works (1623-1683), Jonathan Scott; Henry Sidney (1641-1704), Earl of Romney, and Robert Spencer (1641-1702), second Earl of Sunderland, Michael G. Brennan. Part III The Sidneys in Ireland and Wales: The Sidneys in Ireland, Thomas Herron; The Sidneys and Wales, Willy Maley and Philip Schwyzer. Part IV The Sidneys and the Continent: The Sidneys and the continent: the Tudor period, Roger Kuin; The Sidneys and the continent: the Stuart period, Michael G. Brennan. Part V The Sidneys and the Arts: The Sidneys and public entertainments, Arthur F. Kinney; The Sidneys and literary patronage, Lisa Celovsky; Penshurst Place and Leicester House, Susie West; The Sidneys and the visual arts, Elizabeth Goldring; The Sidneys and music, Katherine R. Larson. Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 929.20942; Upper class families -- England -- History; Authors, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000152135
• Related ISBNs: 9781000109092; 9781000125351; 9781003074908
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