An edition of The Correspondence of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester [1598-1659], ed. Michael Brennan, Margaret Hannay and Noel Kinnamon

《莱斯特伯爵夫人多萝西·珀西·西德尼的通信》一版 [1598-1659]，编辑。

• 批准号: AH/G001413/1
• 负责人: Michael Gerard Brennan
• 金额: $ 3.92万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG001413%2F1
• 关键词: edition; Correspondence; Dorothy; Percy; Sidney

1. This project, to complete a contracted and collaborative edition (with Ashgate Publishing) of The Correspondence of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester [1598-1659], draws upon the wealth of seventeenth-century manuscript material held in the Sidney family archive, one of the largest collections of early-modern family and state papers in private hands. With the support of its owner, Viscount De L'Isle, the three co-editors of this edition have been collaboratively working on materials from this archive for the last fifteen years, resulting, to date, in six published books, numerous articles and conference papers, and four further ongoing contracted book-length publications. 2. This edition will provide the first complete edition of the c.140 surviving letters from Dorothy Percy Sidney's correspondence and will illustrate her centrality to the Sidney family's personal and public lives from the 1630s onwards. Its scope and format will parallel our earlier collaborative edition of Sidney family letters for the same Ashgate series, Domestic Politics and Family Absence. The Correspondence (1588-1621) of Robert Sidney, first Earl of Leicester, and Barbara Gamage Sidney, Countess of Leicester (Ashgate, 2005) - i.e., the correspondence of Dorothy Percy Sidney's parents-in-law. It will also draw upon my own preliminary findings on her familial and political importance included in my monograph, The Sidneys of Penshurst and the Monarchy, 15001-1700 (Ashgate, 2006 - completed during a previous period of AHRC Research Leave in 2005).3. Dorothy secretly married Robert Sidney (son of Queen Anne's Lord Chamberlain, Robert, 1st Earl of Leicester, and nephew of Sir Philip Sidney) in mid-1616 but was warmly welcomed into the Sidney's family life at Penshurst in Kent and at London, where they often resided at Baynard's Castle with their influential cousins, William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, and his younger brother, Philip Herbert, 1st Earl of Montgomery, a lasting favourite and close personal friend of King James. 4. Dorothy's own familial links were of immense value to the Sidneys. She was the daughter of Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland, and his wife, Dorothy Devereux, the sister of the executed Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex. As her letters demonstrate, she also brought useful political connections with the circle of her sister, Lucy Percy Hay, Countess of Carlisle and, thereby, developed a productive intimacy relationship with Queen Henrietta Maria herself.5. During her husband's embassy to France (1636/41) and then his Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland (1641/4), Dorothy became an active and shrewd promoter of her family's interests at court and a staunch defender of her husband's administrative reputation and loyalty to the English royal family. Due to Robert Sidney's prolonged absences on international, official and court duties, Dorothy increasingly became the personal and political focus of the Sidney family during the 1630s and 1640s; and, following her husband's traumatic disassociation from Charles I in 1644, she became the central and pivotal figure for the Sidneys in court and political life.6. In addition to her correspondence with a wide variety of influential court and political figures at this period, in her letters Dorothy also regularly writes about her responsibilities for the financial and domestic management of both her country estate, Penshurst Place in Kent, and her huge London mansion, Leicester House. She comments on the Sidneys' growing collection of pictures and furnishing imported from France and, after 1649, acquired from the English royal collections, and the domestic vicissitudes of childhood illnesses, outbreaks of the plague and schemes for the grand marital unions of her children. Her letters eloquently convey how complex, demanding and testing were the multifaceted roles expected during the mid-17th century of an aristocratic early-modern Englishwoman.

1.这个项目是为了完成《莱斯特伯爵夫人多萝西珀西·西德尼的书信》（1598-1659）的合同和合作版（与阿什盖特出版社合作），它利用了西德尼家族档案馆中17世纪手稿材料的财富，西德尼家族档案馆是私人手中最大的早期现代家族和国家文件收藏之一。在其所有者Viscount De L 'Isle的支持下，这一版本的三位共同编辑在过去的15年里一直在合作处理该档案中的材料，迄今为止，已出版了六本书，许多文章和会议论文，以及四本正在进行的合同书长度出版物。2.这个版本将提供第一个完整版的c.140幸存的信件从多萝西珀西西德尼的通信，并将说明她的中心地位，西德尼家庭的个人和公共生活从1630年代起。它的范围和格式将平行于我们早期的合作版西德尼家庭信件相同阿什盖特系列，国内政治和家庭缺席。罗伯特·西德尼，第一任莱斯特伯爵和莱斯特伯爵夫人芭芭拉·加玛吉·西德尼的书信（1588-1621）（阿什盖特，2005年）-即，多萝西珀西西德尼岳父母的信件它还将借鉴我自己对她的家庭和政治重要性的初步调查结果，这些调查结果包括在我的专著《彭赫斯特的西德尼和君主制》（15001-1700年）（阿什盖特，2006年-在2005年澳大利亚人权委员会研究休假期间完成）中。多萝西秘密嫁给了罗伯特·西德尼（安妮女王的张伯伦勋爵的儿子，罗伯特，第一代莱斯特伯爵，菲利普·西德尼爵士的侄子），但在肯特的彭舍斯特和伦敦，他们经常与他们有影响力的堂兄弟，第三代彭布罗克伯爵威廉赫伯特和他的弟弟菲利普赫伯特一起住在贝纳德城堡，第一代蒙哥马利伯爵，詹姆斯国王的最爱和密友。4.多萝西自己的家庭关系对西德尼夫妇来说有着巨大的价值。她是诺森伯兰郡第九代伯爵亨利珀西和他的妻子多萝西·德弗罗的女儿，多萝西是被处决的埃塞克斯第二代伯爵罗伯特的妹妹。正如她的信件所表明的那样，她还与她的妹妹，卡莱尔伯爵夫人露西珀西海伊的圈子建立了有用的政治联系，从而与亨里埃塔玛丽亚女王本人建立了富有成效的亲密关系。在丈夫出使法国（1636/41年）和担任爱尔兰总督（1641/4年）期间，多萝西积极而精明地推动了家族在宫廷中的利益，并坚定地捍卫了丈夫的行政声誉和对英国皇家的忠诚。由于罗伯特·西德尼长期缺席国际、官方和法庭职务，多萝西在17世纪30年代和40年代越来越成为西德尼家族的个人和政治焦点;在1644年她丈夫与查理一世的创伤性分离之后，她成为西德尼家族在法庭和政治生活中的核心和关键人物。除了与这一时期各种各样有影响力的宫廷和政治人物的通信外，多萝西还经常在信中提到她在肯特的彭赫斯特庄园和她在伦敦的豪宅莱斯特庄园的财务和家庭管理责任。她评论了西德尼夫妇不断增加的绘画收藏和从法国进口的家具，以及1649年后从英国皇家收藏中获得的家具，以及儿童疾病的家庭变迁，瘟疫的爆发和她孩子们盛大婚姻的计划。她的信雄辩地传达了一个世纪中期的贵族早期现代英国女性所期望的多方面角色是多么复杂，要求和考验。