Pembroke, Mary, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621)

English poet. The sister of Philip Sidney, she married Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke in 1577. It was at her suggestion that Sidney wrote his Arcadia, and she completed his translation of the Psalms after his death. She was the patron of Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, and other poets, and herself wrote several works. She also translated Philippe de Mornay's A Discourse of Life and Death (1592).