{"id":209,"date":"2025-02-21T12:59:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T12:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/?page_id=209"},"modified":"2025-02-21T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:37:09","slug":"sidneys-sonnets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/penshurst\/sidneys-sonnets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sidneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_212\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212\" class=\" wp-image-212\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/files\/2025\/02\/427px-Sir_Philip_Sidney_from_NPG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/files\/2025\/02\/427px-Sir_Philip_Sidney_from_NPG.jpg 427w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/files\/2025\/02\/427px-Sir_Philip_Sidney_from_NPG-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div><em>[brief intro re why focus on these two]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sir Philip Sidney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 \u2013 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include a\u00a0sonnet sequence,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/sidneys-and-sonnets\/\"><i>Astrophil and Stella<\/i><\/a>, a\u00a0treatise,\u00a0<i>The Defence of Poesy<\/i>\u00a0(also known as\u00a0<i>The Defence of Poesie<\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0<i>An Apology for Poetrie<\/i>) and a\u00a0pastoral romance,\u00a0<i>The Countess of Pembroke&#8217;s Arcadia<\/i>. He died fighting the Spanish in the Netherlands, age 31.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_214\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214\" class=\" wp-image-214\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/files\/2025\/02\/Lady_Mary_Wroth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/files\/2025\/02\/Lady_Mary_Wroth.jpg 268w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/files\/2025\/02\/Lady_Mary_Wroth-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div><strong>Lady Mary Wroth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lady Mary Wroth (n\u00e9e Sidney; 18 October 1587[1] \u2013 1651\/3) was an English noblewoman and a poet of the English Renaissance. A member of a distinguished literary family, Lady Wroth was among the first female English writers to have achieved an enduring reputation. Mary Wroth was niece to Mary Herbert n\u00e9e Sidney (Countess of Pembroke and one of the most distinguished women writers and patrons of the 16th century), and to Sir Philip Sidney, a famous Elizabethan poet-courtier.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Mention of works and links to Love&#8217;s Victory<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[brief intro re why focus on these two] Sir Philip Sidney Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 \u2013 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include a\u00a0sonnet sequence,\u00a0Astrophil and Stella, a\u00a0treatise,\u00a0The Defence of Poesy\u00a0(also known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-209","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions\/245"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}