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Penelope Rich, Lady Rich, later styled Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire was an English noblewoman. She was the sister of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and is traditionally thought to be the inspiration for "Stella" of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella sonnet sequence. She married Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich and had a public ...
Lady Penelope's first husband, Lord Rich, was created Earl of Warwick on 2 Aug. 1618, and died on 24 March 1618–9, being buried with his ancestors at Felsted. At Rochford he founded an almshouse for five old men and one old woman ( Morant , Essex , i. 102).
Lady Rich was born Penelope Devereux (?1563-1607), the sister of Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex. She married Robert, Lord Rich, later Earl of Warwick, in 1581, but they were legally separated in 1605. Several years before that, her great beauty - sparkling dark eyes and fair hair ('waves of gold') - had been a ...
This essay studies a single letter by Penelope, Lady Rich (1563–1607) as a means of examining the roles that early modern women played in scribal publication and Elizabethan court politics. Written in the aftermath of the earl of Essex’s disgrace in 1599, the letter interceded with Queen Elizabeth on her brother’s behalf.
Rich, Penelope, Lady, 1562?-1607,. Copy of letter from Lady Penelope Rich to Queen Elizabeth, late 1599? [manuscript], before 1642? Folger Shakespeare Library: referencedIn: Devonshire, Charles Blount, Earl of, 1563-1606. Copy of A discourse in defense of Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire's marriage with Lady Rich, 1605 [manuscript], ca. 1610?
When Sir Robert Rich II was born in December 1559, his father, Sir Robert Rich, was 22 and his mother, Lady Elizabeth Baldry, was 22. He married Lady Penelope Devereux on 10 January 1581. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 24 March 1619, in Snarford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 59, and ...
17 de oct. de 2018 · John Hamill argued that Penelope Devereux Rich, sister of the Earl of Essex, was the Dark Lady. Penelope had five children by her husband and six children from an extramarital affair. Hamill argued that Penelope also had an affair with Southampton. He stated that the anonymous 1594 poem, “Willobie His Avisa” (WHA), provided clues to the ...
