Mary Sidney Herbert

Mary Sidney Herbert was the most important non-Royal wirter in the Elizabethean era. She succeeded in doing so by writing more religious-based works and including more ideas related to woman wirting. She was never criticized by going away from what she was writing.

Early in her wiring career, her family was struck with death countless times and that really pushed her to publishing under her own name which was rare from an aristocratic woman. She helped published many works that garnered her fame in the literary world.

Her translation of the Psalms was crucial to her in commenting on contemporary politics especially on the persecution of the "godly" which were the Protestants.