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6 de jun. de 2023 · Penelope was a strongly independent woman who fought for love and her family, even if that meant becoming enemies with the most powerful people in England. A remarkable woman who left her mark on both the Tudor and Stuart dynasties, Lady Penelope Rich took her life and legacy into her own hands.
Lady Rich and Lord Devonshire were openly named and their scandal was discussed by a contemporary historian, Robert Johnston, but his Latin account was published in the Netherlands in 1655. George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury wrote a lengthy essay on political and religious affairs in 1627 which was published in 1659.
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.
Penelope Rich” (U 7.1040), he draws a corresponding link between “poor” Penelope, the faithful wife of the Homeric Odysseus (“ITHACANS VOW PEN IS CHAMP”—U 7.1034), and Penelope Rich, the Elizabethan gentlewoman who inspired Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnet-sequence Astrophil and Stella. 2 The thirty-seventh sonnet of this collection repetitively foregrounds the word “rich” in ...
Child: Penelope RICH Birth: 1590; Child: Henry Rich, 1st Earl of HOLLAND Birth: ABT 19 Aug 1590, Stratford-le-Bow, Midx. Partnership with: Charles Blount, 8th Lord MOUNTJOY 1594-, Earl of Devon -1604-Marriage: 26 Dec 1605, Wanstead, Essex. Child: Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of NEWPORT Birth: ABT 1597; Ancestors of Penelope DEVEREUX , Lady Rich
Brief Life History of Robert. When Sir Robert Rich 2nd Earl of Warwick was born on 5 June 1587, in Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Sir Robert Rich II, was 27 and his mother, Lady Penelope Devereux, was 24. He married Lady Frances Hatton Countess of Warwick on 12 February 1604, in Hackney, London, England, United Kingdom.
Penelope Rich, Lady, 1562–1607, the "Stella" of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella (1591). Daughter of Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, she married (1581) Lord Rich (later earl of Warwick); after a divorce she married (1605) the earl of Devonshire.
