Author:Mary Sidney

For authors with similar names, see Author:Mary Herbert.

Mary Sidney
(1561–1621)

Mary Sidney

Works

As author

• The Dolefull Lay of Clorinda (1595).
• Five poems in the Kassel Miscellany.

As translator

• The Tragedie of Antonie by Robert Garnier (1592).
• A discourse of life and death by Philippe de Mornay (1592).
• The Sidney Psalms (1599), collaboration with brother Philip Sidney.
• The Triumph of Death by Petrarch.

As editor

• The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia by Philip Sidney (1580).
• An Apology for Poetry by Philip Sidney (1595).

Works about Sidney

• "Mary, Countess of Pembroke," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Herbert, Mary," by Sidney Lee in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke", eulogy by William Browne (1660; also attributed to Ben Jonson)
• "Mary Sidney," in Men of Kent and Kentishmen (pp. 123−124), by John Hutchinson, Canterbury: Cross & Jackman (1892)