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523:. Bedford occasionally wrote poems herself, including a poem Donne claims he saw in the garden of her Twickenham estate. Only one of her poems is extant, "Death be not proud, thy hand gave not this blow", an epitaph on Bulstrode. This poem has been attributed to Donne, and suggestively shares an opening clause with his
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Bedford was the godmother of Donne's second daughter, also named Lucy, and the namesake of Sir Henry
Goodere's daughter (later wife of Sir Francis Nethersole). Donne seems to have been deeply involved with her on a psychological level — "Most of the poems of Donne's middle years relate, in one way or
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dedicated a book on fruit and vegetables to her. She described her building and improvements at Moor Park in a letter to a friend; "my works att the More, whear I have been a patcher this sommer and I am still adding some trifles of pleasure to that place I am so much love with, as I were so fond of
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wrote that she came back to the royal court, but affected by grief she used less cosmetics than the other women at court, "Marry, she is somewhat reformed in her attire, and forebears painting, which they say makes her somewhat strange among so many vizards, which together with their frizzled
516:, and supported many Calvinist authors and thinkers – yet she allegedly performed bare-breasted in Court masques. Her relationships with some of her poets, including Donne and Drayton, were sometimes uneven; poets who dedicated their works to her could also complain of the loss of her favour.
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in
September 1618 that confined her to bed and disrupted her travel plans. Bedford thought it had weakened her, and she appeared "dangerously ill". Bedford wrote to Lady Cornwallis that she would now be more often at court because of the queen's illness than she had intended.
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She was apparently absent from the queen's company for a part of 1605 and 1606, around the time Anne of
Denmark had her last daughter Sophia, and had perhaps been sent away in disfavour. When Anne of Denmark asked her to come back, and Bedford danced for her, according to
185:. Although the exact date of her birth is unknown, she was christened on January 25, 1581. She was well-educated for a woman in her era, and knew French, Spanish, and Italian. She was a member of the Sidney/Essex circle from birth, through her father, first cousin to Sir
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Several
English nobles secretly sent representatives into Scotland to try to gain favour and court appointments. The Countess of Bedford audaciously skipped the late queen's funeral and rode hard to the Scottish border, ahead of a party of gentlewomen appointed by the
707:. Lady Bedford reportedly had debts of £50,000 in 1619, apart from the Earl's massive indebtedness, and despite a royal grant of duties from sea coal, made plans to sell lands inherited from her father and brother, including
527:; nevertheless, it is now considered much more likely to be Bedford's poem. The elegy has an image of Bulstrode's breast as a crystal palace and the repository of her soul, clearer than the crystal;
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As one of the most influential women at James's court, she was also involved in a range of political issues; in the later part of the reign she was among the most prominent supporters of
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Roxburghe was dismissed from the queen's court soon after this christening, and
Bedford seems to have absented herself at this time in sympathy with her friend. She wrote to her friend
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with a convoy of
English ladies who had come seeking attendance and on 31 May 1603 attended church in Edinburgh accompanied by these would-be companions. Some of the ladies stayed at
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who left "no posterity" (line 59) — yet since the poem was published in 1601, when the
Countess was only twenty years old, the identification has struck others as unlikely.
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Prominent as she was, both
Bedford and her husband had serious financial problems throughout their lives. In 1618 she transferred her shares in the Bermuda Company to the
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the queen laughed and said, "her brother of
Denmark was as handsome a man as the duke of Holstein". The remark may mean that Bedford had been involved with the
741:. The oval medal show her in profile wearing a coronet and a feathered aigrette jewel. The reverse has a snake catching its tail or protecting its head, an "
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another, to this glamorous and intriguing woman." Her contradictions could be provocative: the Countess was a dedicated
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scandal, he wrote a letter to an unknown lady, who is thought by some scholars to have been the Countess of Bedford.
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and Scotland in August 1600. The Earl of Bedford got himself into serious trouble in 1601 when he rode with the
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eras, the primary non-royal performer in contemporary court masques, a letter-writer, and a poet. She was an
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that blinded her in one eye, and in 1620 treated her for depression which he recorded as "hypochondriacus".
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to her, extolling her patronage. By his own admission, Jonson portrayed her as Ethra in his lost pastoral,
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Drawing by Isaac Oliver for a miniature portrait of the Countess of Bedford, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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powdered hair makes them look all alike, so you can scant know one from another at first view."
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A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse: The Queen's Servants at the Red Bull Theatre
374:, and in 1617 instigating and organising the performance of Robert White's masque
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Keith Brown, 'The Scottish Aristocracy, Anglicisation and the Court, 1603-1638',
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Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of The Bermudas or Somers Islands
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The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis
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that Roxburghe's absence in Scotland "makes me perfectly hate the court".
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Around the year 1625, Lady Bedford commissioned a portrait medal from
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From Tudor to Stewart: the regime change from Elizabeth I to James I
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Out of the Shadows: The Life of Lucy, Countess, Countess of Bedford
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455:(1609). When Jonson was imprisoned in 1605 for his role in the
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being a noteworthy example. She is the dedicatee of Dowland's
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Bedford certainly wrote an elegy on the death of her cousin
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Out of the Shadows: The Life of Lucy, Countess of Bedford.
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1007:, p. 134 no. 90, now British Library Add. MS 19401 f.185.
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Out of the Shadows: The Life of Lucy, Countess of Bedford
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Anne of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography.
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and she became a trusted confidant. The queen came from
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Lucy and the Earl seem to have been expected to visit
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Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
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Dudley Carleton to John Chamberlain: Jacobean Letters
212:. She miscarried her first child in February 1596 at
1236:, 36:3 (September 1993), pp. 543-576, at 546, 551-2.
943:(Cambridge, 2013), pp. 119-120: Susan Dunn-Hensley,
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Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676
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1045:(Manchester, 2018), pp. 18-20: Katherine Acheson,
928:James I of England: The Wisest Fool in Christendom
1553:. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987.
1330:Genealogical history of the Earldom of Sutherland
766:(2011), a historical novel by Christie Dickason.
484:. She might be the "Idea" of Drayton's pastoral
407:A drawing for her costume as Penthesilea in the
1064:Mémoire des sages et royales oeconomies d'Estat
842:, bermuda-online.org. Accessed 14 January 2023.
1502:Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570–1640.
1112:, vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1939), pp. 51, 55, 57.
854:, HamiltonParish.bm. Accessed 14 January 2023.
533:The clearer soule was call'd to endlesse rest.
1410:, 2 (London: Colburn, 1849), pp. 194–95, 322.
1047:The Memoir of 1603 and the Diary of 1616-1619
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975:(Oxford, 2024), p. 120: John Leeds Barroll,
905:, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1896), p. 678 no. 1221.
193:; she was a close friend of Essex's sisters
98:John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton
1423:, 2nd series vol. 3 (London, 1827), p. 247.
531:From out the Christall Pallace of her brest
441:(1600) to her and addressed several of his
868:. London: Hambledon Continuum. p. 1.
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1395:The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women
1343:The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women
657:In August 1616 she was with the court at
404:, was staged by the Countess of Bedford.
299:, and brought her to Dingley on 24 June.
199:Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland
1436:, 2 (London: Colburn, 1849), pp. 179–80.
1432:Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams,
1406:Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams,
1519:Early Modern Women Poets: An Anthology.
1382:Correspondence of Lady Cornwallis Bacon
1356:Correspondence of Lady Cornwallis Bacon
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173:Lucy Harington was the daughter of Sir
1521:Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001.
1290:The Court and times of James the First
955:(Oxford, 2021), p. 28: Lesley Lawson,
1315:William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen,
1302:William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen,
1049:(Broadview, Toronto, 2006), pp. 50-1.
926:Clara Steeholm & Hardy Steeholm,
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1017:A Chronicle of the Kings of Scotland
683:Jean Drummond, Countess of Roxburghe
330:Bedford performed in several of the
1467:The Evolution of English Collecting
1317:HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle Penshurst
1304:HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle Penshurst
1123:The Evolution of English Collecting
1097:The Evolution of English Collecting
1084:The Evolution of English Collecting
947:(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), p. 79:
695:Anne of Denmark had a nosebleed at
206:Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford
88:Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford
1663:17th-century women philanthropists
1582:Information from Twickenham Museum
1434:Court and Times of James the First
1408:Court and Times of James the First
1319:, vol. 5 (London, 1961), p. 411-2.
1287:& Robert Folkestone Williams,
661:, the only countess present, when
488:(1593) and of his sonnet sequence
371:The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses
361:The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses
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977:Anna of Denmark, Queen of England
959:(London: Hambledon, 2007), p. 49.
953:Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts
722:. In 1619 he treated her for the
496:(1594) to her, as Daniel did his
386:. In February 1617 the masque by
130:Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford
1449:(London, 2007), pp. 149-51, 155.
1371:, vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 493.
1306:, vol. 5 (London, 1961), p. 408.
1292:, vol. 1 (London, 1848), p. 262.
1066:, (Amsterdam, 1639), pp. 271–72.
1032:, vol. 1 (London, 1828), p. 174.
979:(Philadelphia, 2001), pp. 43-45.
816:, 62:4 (December 2019), p. 859:
671:Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun
368:of the New Year masque in 1604,
1479:Fitzwilliam Museum CM.2111-2003
1110:The Letters of John Chamberlain
762:Lucy Russell is the subject of
673:and Louisa Gordon whose mother
322:for the Countess of Bedford by
915:Journal of Sir Roger Wilbraham
825:, vol. 1 (London, 1877), p. 99
587:any man I were in hard case."
498:Vision of the Twelve Goddesses
492:(1594). Drayton dedicated his
415:survives in the collection at
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1633:17th-century English nobility
1628:16th-century English nobility
1533:Ben Jonson: A Critical Study.
1369:Progresses of James the First
1249:(New Brunswick, 1972), p. 90.
1058:Maximilien de Béthune Sully,
1030:Progresses of James the First
991:Fragments of Scottish History
751:Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
210:St Dunstan's on Stepney Green
1658:Household of Anne of Denmark
1648:17th-century philanthropists
1509:John Donne: The Major Works.
1195:Food in Early Modern England
1060:Memoirs of the Duke of Sully
993:(Edinburgh, 1798), pp. 59-60
541:at Twickenham Park in 1609.
486:Idea: The Shepherd's Garland
892:(London, 2007), pp. 19, 28.
747:Theodore Turquet de Mayerne
718:noted she had "podagra" or
675:Geneviève Petau de Maulette
334:staged at court, including
318:Drawing for the costume of
244:in 1603, when the reign of
236:in rebellion against Queen
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1384:(Cranbury NJ, 2003) p. 93.
1358:(Cranbury NJ, 2003) p. 88.
1332:(Edinburgh, 1813), p. 343.
1275:(London, 2007), pp. 121-2.
1262:(London, 2007), pp. 66-68.
1223:(London, 2007), pp. 61-63.
1019:(Edinburgh, 1830), p. 168.
796:(Cambridge, 2020), p. 42.
563:The Phoenix and the Turtle
431:She was a noted patron of
302:The French ambassador the
191:Mary, Countess of Pembroke
930:(New York, 1938), p. 245.
903:Calendar of Border Papers
839:Bermuda's Hamilton Parish
606:Bedford took part in the
435:, who dedicated his play
394:to the French ambassador
289:Dingley, Northamptonshire
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1638:Ladies of the Bedchamber
1528:London, Continuum, 2007.
1469:(Yale, 2003), pp. 230-2.
1397:(Palgrave, 2011), p. 73.
1345:(Palgrave, 2011), p. 74.
224:Courting Anne of Denmark
1535:New Delhi, Anmol, 2002.
1500:Bergeron, David Moore.
1108:Norman Egbert McClure,
864:Lawson, Lesley (2007).
337:The Masque of Blackness
291:she rode south to meet
204:Lucy Harington married
1543:Politics of Discourse,
1504:London, Ashgate, 2006.
1234:The Historical Journal
1210:(London, 1842), p. 48.
1197:(London, 2007), p. 67.
917:(London, 1902), p. 55.
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169:Parentage and marriage
118:Lady of the Bedchamber
1643:Patrons of literature
1513:Davidson, Peter, and
1493:Barroll, John Leeds.
1125:(Yale, 2003), p. 224.
1099:(Yale, 2003), p. 222.
1086:(Yale, 2003), p. 224.
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153:(shareholder) in the
714:The court physician
705:Marquess of Hamilton
597:Elizabeth of Bohemia
582:. An Italian writer
551:Second Book of Songs
355:The Masque of Queens
349:The Masque of Beauty
276:house in Edinburgh.
165:is named after her.
155:Somers Isles Company
1613:Daughters of barons
1184:See external links.
716:Théodore de Mayerne
608:Masque of Blackness
584:Giacomo Castelvetro
242:Union of the Crowns
40:Countess of Bedford
1608:English countesses
1447:Out of the Shadows
1273:Out of the Shadows
1260:Out of the Shadows
1221:Out of the Shadows
1041:Jessica L. Malay,
890:Out of the Shadows
814:Historical Journal
764:The Noble Assassin
620:Mary Sutton Dudley
376:Cupid's Banishment
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285:Princess Elizabeth
230:Berwick-upon-Tweed
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