Penshurst Place

/ ˈpɛnzhɜːst /

noun

1. a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560

Example Sentences

Penshurst Place in Kent is the ancestral home of the Sidney family and Lady Mary would have spent time there after her less than satisfactory marriage came to an end when her drunken husband, Robert Wroth, died of gangrene.

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Professor Findlay, who has been working on the drama project for two years, has long argued that Lady Mary Wroth composed Love's Victory at Penshurst Place, which once belonged to Henry VIII.

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Lady Mary Wroth was the daughter of Robert Sidney, who inherited Penshurst Place in 1587 after the death of his elder brother - the Elizabethan poet and soldier, Sir Philip Sidney.

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Love's Victory, written around 1620 by Lady Mary Wroth, will have a staged reading at Penshurst Place on Sunday.

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There were also many pictures of Penshurst Place, and of the old village church, whose beautiful chime of bells I so well remember, and where I have 'assisted' at more than one pretty wedding.

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