Although previous studies have portrayed Mary Sidney as a demure,
retiring woman, Hannay, basing her work on primary sources (account
books, legal documents, diaries, family letters), has discovered
that she was brilliant, learned, witty, articulate, and adept at
self-presentation. Married to the wealthy Earl of Pembroke, she
ruled over her little court at Wilton just as Elizabeth ruled in
London. Her wisdom, poetry, and scholarship were extravagantly
praised by those who sought to gain her favour. When Philip, her
older brother, died fighting for the Protestant cause, she moved to
London to take up his literary activities, publishing his writings,
writing and translating works of which he would have approved,
assuming his role as literary patron and supporting the Protestant
cause for which he died. All the literary work for which she is
celebrated took place between her return to London in 1588 and her
husband's death in 1601. While previous biographers contended that
her widowhood was quiet and uneventful, Hannay shows, via court
cases, that her final years were colourful indeed, as,
administering the properties she retained, she contended with jewel
thieves, pirates, and murderers, finally bringing them to trial
after complex legal and political manoeuvres.
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