Mary Sidney's Life After the Death of Anne

Mary talbot's father was the earl of shrewsbury. Her sons had taken up her mantle as patrons of the arts. She is rumoured to have possibly had a romance with sir matthew lister, who was her doctor and was younger than her. Mary died of smallpox on september 20 fifth 16 21 in london. That was a month away from her sixtieth birthday. We don't have many of her personal letters, just some business correspondence. There one aspect of her life's work that remains a little under documented, it's difficult to actually prove - she developed a recipe for disappearing ink.