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Domestic Politics and Family Absence: The Correspondence (1588–1621) of Robert Sidney, First Earl of Leicester, and Barbara Gamage Sidney, Countess of Leicester book cover

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Domestic Politics and Family Absence The Correspondence (1588–1621) of Robert Sidney, First Earl of Leicester, and Barbara Gamage Sidney, Countess of Leicester

Edited By Margaret P. Hannay, Noel J. Kinnamon Copyright 2005
298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge
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Though all but three of Robert Sidney's 332 extant letters to his wife Barbara Gamage Sidney have been in the Sidney family archive, they have never previously been fully transcribed or edited. This edition of the surviving letters, which Sidney wrote to his wife when they were separated for long periods by his official duties at various continental locations, provides a wealth of information... Read more
Contents: General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Illustrations, Sidney family tree; Sidney family alliances reflected in correspondence; Introduction; Letters about accounts; Principles of modernization; A note on the text; General description of the De L'Isle and Dudley letters; The letters; Persons and places; Appendix: 'To Penshurst'; Index.

Biography

Margaret P. Hannay, Noel J. Kinnamon and Michael G. Brennan have together edited The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke for the Oxford English Texts Series (Oxford UP, 1998) and a modern-spelling edition for students and general readers, Selected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (MRTS, forthcoming). They are currently editing The Correspondence of Rowland Whyte and Robert Sidney, first Earl of Leicester. Margaret Hannay, Professor of English at Siena College, is the author of Philip's Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (Oxford UP, 1990), editor of Silent but for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works (Kent State UP, 1985), and editor, with Susanne Woods, of Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers (MLA, 2000). Michael G. Brennan is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leeds, is the author of Literary Patronage in the English Renaissance: The Pembroke Family (Routledge, 1988) and has edited Lady Mary Wroth's Love's Victor: The Penshurst Manuscript (Roxburghe Club, 1988). With Noel Kinnamon he has published A Sidney Chronology: 1554-1654 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and has has published extensively on Renaissance travel writings.

Prize: Honorable Mention for the Josephine Roberts Edition Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women in 2006 ’... this authoritative text provides a fascinating and detailed biographical introduction to the lives of the correspondents and the historical context of Robert Sidney's letters... This meticulously edited collection will also no doubt bring him renewed attention.’ The Year's Work in English Studies
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