biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (c.1578–1647)
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| biography:
| English courtier, maid of honour to Elizabeth I. She was the mistress of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, and Sir Richard Leveson, and married Captain W Polwhele in 1607. She has been tenuously identified by some commentators as the ‘dark lady’ of Shakespeare's sonnets 127–157. |
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