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- Title
Two Unpublished French Sonnets to Lady Sidney and Additional Verse by Anne de Rueil, A Huguenot Refugee.
- Authors
COATALEN, GUILLAUME
- Abstract
Lady Frances Sidney remains a somewhat obscure figure trapped in the shadow of her two brilliant husbands, Sir Philip Sidney and Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex. Calendar of State Papers Domestic 46: ff. 215-19, contains hitherto unknown verses in French written by a Huguenot refugee around 1590, Anne de Rueil, which may shed some light on Frances's patronage of French exiles. This essay edits, translates, and discusses two sonnets addressed to her, a third one to the French nobility, and a long complaint on France beset by the wars of religion. It provides background on the author and assesses the literary nature and political significance of poems which do not only urge the French nobility to support Henri IV but attempt to engage Queen Elizabeth I's attention as well. The manuscript of these poems offers unique testimony on the circulation of late sixteenth century French political verse in England and cross-frontier female Protestant networks.
- Subjects
FRENCH sonnets; FRENCH literature; SIDNEY, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586; ESSEX, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646; REFUGEES; FRENCH exiles' writings
- Publication
Sidney Journal, 2015, Vol 33, Issue 2, p61
- ISSN
1480-0926
- Publication type
Article