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Wilton Abbey was a Benedictine convent in Wiltshire, England, three miles west of Salisbury, probably on the site now occupied by Wilton House. It was active from the early tenth century until 1539.
Part of the gardens of Wilton House
Near-contemporary drawing of Edith
Wilton House
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Wilton House is an English country house at Wilton near Salisbury in Wiltshire, which has been the country seat of the Earls of Pembroke for over 400 years. It was built on the site of the medieval Wilton Abbey. Following the dissolution of the monasteries, Henry VIII presented Wilton Abbey and its attached estates to William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke. The house is linked by some with the premiere of Shakespeare's As You Like It, and an important literary saloon culture under its occupation by Mary Sidney, wife of the first Earl.
The east front, the entrance front until 1801, contains at its centre all that remains of the exterior of the original Tudor mansion
The south front of Wilton House
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 Wilton: an out put Mary Sidney's litterary saloon culture at the house
Mary Sidney ran important literary activities from Wilton House in the 16th century