Amy Robsart
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Amy, Lady Dudley was the first wife of Robert Dudley, who later became Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I of England. In the variable spelling of the day, her name also was spelled as Amye Du
Fantasy portrait by T.F. Dicksee, 19th century
Amy and her maid, watercolour by George Cattermole, 1852
Leicester and Amy Robsart at Cumnor Hall (1866) by Edward Matthew Ward. Fantasy portrait after Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth
Fantasy Portrait. Amy Robsart, 1864, by William Frederick Yeames, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Kenilworth (novel)
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Kenilworth. A Romance is a historical romance novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, first published on 13 January 1821. Set in 1575, it leads up to the elaborate reception of Queen El
Amy Robsart
…then Earl of Leicester, perpetuated this version of events. Interest in Amy Dudley's fate was rekindled in the 19th century by Walter Scott's novel, Kenilworth (1821), which presented her death as murder, and numerous adaptations of this for the stage, and in art, which typically took the same line. Amy Robsart…
First edition title page.
Portrait of Sir Walter Scott by Thomas Lawrence
Kenilworth Castle's 16th-century gatehouse, built by Robert Dudley
The Elizabethan Gardens at Kenilworth