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Lady Penelope Devereux: Sir Philip Sidney's Muse (Tudor Times Insights (Profile) Book 8) Kindle Edition

by Tudor Times (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Lady Penelope Devereux lived a life of romance and intrigue - Sir Philip Sidney's muse, and sister to the ill-fated Earl of Essex, this great-grand-daughter of Mary Boleyn was one of the leading lights of the late Elizabeth and Jacobean age - although she was described by James VI & I as 'a fair woman with a black soul'.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Tudor Times Insights are books collating articles from our website www.tudortimes.co.uk which is a repository for a wide variety of information about the Tudor and Stewart period 1485 – 1625. There you can find material on People, Places, Daily Life, Military & Warfare, Politics & Economics and Religion. The site has a Book Review section, with author interviews and a book club. It also features comprehensive family trees, and a ‘What’s On’ event list with information about forthcoming activities relevant to the Tudors and Stewarts.
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    November 25, 2015
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B018K51GHC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tudor Times Ltd; 1st edition (November 25, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 25, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 250 KB
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Tudor Times is the place to go for a wide variety of information about the Tudor and Stewart period 1485 - 1625. On the website you can find material on People, Places, Daily Life, Military & Warfare, Politics & Economics and Religion. It features Guest Articles from well-known Tudor & Stewart historians. The site has a Book Review section, with author interviews and a book club. It also has comprehensive family trees, and a 'What's On' event list with information about forthcoming activities relevant to the Tudors and Stewarts.

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  • An Elizabethan
    2.0 out of 5 stars It Will Do If You're Just Curious
    Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2016
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    If you need only the most basic account of Penelope Devereux' life this will do in a pinch and whoever wrote it--no author is given--did try on occasion to weigh the validity of some information used. But there's not much here and you need to watch out for the stray historical howler, such as the statement that Penelope was summoned before "Lord Burghley himself"...except this happened two years after Burghley died. By the time Lady Penelope was being called on the carpet by the Lord Treasurer that office was held by Thomas Sackville Lord Buckhurst (later Earl of Dorset). The most reliable, scholarly, and readable source for Penelope Devereux is the Yale University doctoral dissertation by Michele Margetts titled "Stella Britanna: The Early Life (1563-1592) of Lady Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich (d. 1607)," a work heavily mined (though never mentioned) by Sally Varlow for her 2007 book cited in this brief Tudor Times volume and obviously its main source. Varlow uses Margetts' French and Latin translations without attribution or with attribution to others, and freely lifts Margetts' source references--though sometimes, while taking them from the right page, she takes them from the wrong footnote! So, if all you want is a short work that provides a general superficial sense of where Penelope Devereux fits in history, then you'll get that from this little Tudor Times booklet; just don't rely on it for genuine research purposes.
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  • Robert Stedall
    1.0 out of 5 stars A very limited resume
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2019
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    This really does not go into enough detail to assist the historian and is not really very well written for those wanting to learn something about Penelope. Sally Varlow's Lady Penelope, which is one of its source documents, is really a much more useful and enjoyable read
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  • Reb Alexander
    3.0 out of 5 stars but it's useful.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 15, 2018
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    It's an old book, with old opinions, but it's useful.
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