Her Work
Mary
Sidney's Works
All of Mary Sidney's works are available in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, ed. Margaret P. Hannay, Noel J. Kinnamon, and Michael Brennan, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998). Unfortunately, Vol. 1 costs $200 and Vol. 2 costs $240.
Collected Works of Mary Sidney, Vol. 1 Poems, Translations, and Correspondence:
Collected Works of Mary Sidney, Vol. 2: The Psalmes of David:
Below is a list of Mary's Sidney's known work. Please click here to read the first three paragraphs of her translation of A Discourse of Life and Death.
A Discourse of Life and Death, translated from the French by Philippe de Mornay. A Discourse of Life and Death, Written in French by Philip Mornay; Antonius: A Tragedie Written Also in French by Robert Garnier. Both done in English by the Countesse of Pembroke. London: printed by J. Windet for William Ponsonby, 1592.
Antonius, translated from Garnier's French version.
The Tragedie of Antonie. Done into English by the Countesse
of Pembroke. London: printed by P. (Short for William Ponsonby),
1595. (First published with A
Discourse in 1592, separately in 1595)
Antonius. 1595 ed. (Tragedie of Antonie).
"The Doleful Lay"
Printed in Edmund Spenser's Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegy
Upon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip
Sidney. London:
printed by T. Creede for William Ponsonby, 1595.
"A Dialogue between two shepherds, Thenot
and Piers,
in praise of Astrea"
Printed in A Poetical
Rhapsody Containing, Diverse Sonnets, Odes, Elegies, Madrigals,
and other Poesies, both in Rhyme and Measured Verse, ed. Francis
Davison. London: printed by V. Simmes for J. Baily, 1602. Reprinted
1608, 1611, 1621.
The Psalmes of David (1590s). Manuscript only during her lifetime.
"Even now that Care" and "To
the Angel spirit of the most excellent Sir Phillip Sidney" (1590s).
"To the Angel Spirit," an early version by the countess found
with Samuel Daniel's papers and erroneously included in The
Whole Works of Samuel Daniel Esquire in Poetry.
London: printed by N. Okes for Simon Waterson, 1623.
The Triumph of Death (1590s, transcribed 1600), translated from the Italian by Petrarch.
Correspondence.