Crosby Hall, London
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Crosby Hall is a historic building in London. The Great Hall was built in 1466 and originally known as Crosby Place on Bishopsgate, in the City of London. It was moved in 1910 to its present site in C
Crosby Hall at Chelsea from the east, showing the medieval Great Hall, faced in Portland stone, to the right; with 1990s additions in brick to the left
Crosby Hall, showing commercial frontage added 1841
The interior of Crosby Hall in 1884, when it was in use as a restaurant
Crosby Moran Hall viewed across the Thames from the south. The white stone gable visible in the background to the right belongs to the original medieval Great Hall, whilst the riverside frontage dates from the 1990s and the higher northern wing behind it from the 1920s.
Mary Sidney
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Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke was among the first Englishwomen to gain notice for her poetry and her literary patronage. By the age of 39, she was listed with her brother Philip Sidney and with E
Portrait of Mary Herbert (née Sidney), by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1590.
The title page of Sidney's The Tragedy of Antony, her interpretation of the story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
First page of As You Like It from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays; the first performance of the play may have been at Mary Sidney's house at Wilton