• Lady Mary Sidney Wroth and her cousin William Herbert are the two younger generation Sidneys whose writings have come down to us.
  • "Mary (Sidney) Herbert, countess of Pembroke". In Sullivan, Garrett A; Stewart, Alan; Lemon, Rebecca; McDowell, Nicholas; Richard, Jennifer (eds.).
  • She also adapted the Sidney crest of a pheon, or arrow head, into her own deviceitwo pheons intersecting to form an M for Mary and crossed by an H for Herbert.
  • Styled the Countess of Pembroke following her 1577 marriage to Henry Herbert, Mary Sidney was a celebrated figure in Tudor society with several published...
  • The Mary Sidney Society is an educational and literary organization founded on the premise that Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke...
  • [1] Hannay, ‘Herbert [née Sidney], Mary, countess of Pembroke (1561–1621)’, ODNB. ... Margaret Hannay, “Mary Sydney, Countess of Pembroke.”
  • Mary Sidney Herbert, born in 1561, played a pivotal role as a writer and patron during Elizabethan England, despite the societal constraints on women's literary...
  • Mary Herbert (nee Sidney) Countess of Pembroke 1561 – 1621. Portrait by Nicholas Hilliard watercolour on vellum, circa 1590 NPG 5994.
  • Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke is acknowledged as the most educated woman in England at the time, comparable only to Queen Elizabeth.
  • Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke was a scholar noble English writer in Elizabethan time and the center of an artist circle.