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Lady Penelope Rich exercised her considerable influence on Elizabethan events and culture long before men of the Enlightenment isolated women as ‘the moral sex’. Her singing voice inspired works from the greatest composers and poets of the age, revived as part of this exquisitely wrought album from Emily van Evera and her seasoned collaborators.
28 de abr. de 2007 · Penelope, wife to the aptly-named Lord Rich, narrowly evaded punishment, primarily because her lover, Lord Mountjoy, commanded the army in Ireland. More often remembered as the court beauty who inspired Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella, Penelope was, as Sally Varlow demonstrates here, a key political figure at the Elizabethan court.
When Sir Robert Rich II was born in December 1559, his father, Sir Robert Rich, was 22 and his mother, Lady Elizabeth Baldry Baroness of Leighs, was 22. He married Lady Penelope Devereux on 10 January 1581. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters.
When Sir Robert Rich II was born in December 1559, his father, Sir Robert Rich, was 22 and his mother, Lady Elizabeth Baldry Baroness of Leighs, was 22. He married Lady Penelope Devereux on 10 January 1581. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters.
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.
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.
