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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 ...
Penelope Devereux naît en 1563 1. Fille de Walter Devereux, comte d'Essex, extrêmement belle, elle attire, toute jeune, l'attention de Philip Sidney, qui écrit des sonnets où il déclare sa flamme 2. En 1581, on lui fait épouser, contre son gré, Robert Rich 2. Elle maintient ses relations avec Sidney qui continue à célébrer ses charmes ...
Penelope Rich was born c. 1562 at Chartley Castle, Staffordshire, England. She was the daughter of Walter Devereux, 16t Earl of Essex and Lettice Knollys. She was a child of fourteen when Sir Philip Sidney accompanied the queen on a visit to Lady Essex in 1576, on her way from Kenilworth, and must have been frequently thrown into the society of ...
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.
Huntingdon and his wife, who was Leicester’s sister, had charge of Penelope until 1581, when they agreed her marriage with Robert Rich, 3 rd Baron Rich. Penelope’s father had expressed a desire for her to marry Philip Sidney (a nephew of the Earl of Leicester) but neither the Huntingdons, nor Sidney’s father, wanted the match.
RICH, PENELOPE, Lady ( c. 1562–1607), the Stella of Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella, was the daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex. She was a child of fourteen when Sir Philip Sidney accompanied the queen on a visit to Lady Essex in 1576, on her way from Kenilworth, and must have been frequently thrown into the society of ...
Queen Elizabeth died in 1603 and James duly became king. It appears that their secret overtures to the king had not been in vain as Mountjoy was created Earl of Devonshire and Lady Rich became a Lady of the Bedchamber, one of Queen Anne’s ladies-in-waiting. They enjoyed great influence at court. In 1605, Lord Rich sued for divorce.
