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Alice Spencer

English countess, viscountess and baroness (1559-1637) · Died at 77

Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby was an English noblewoman from the Spencer family and noted patron of the arts. Poet Edmund Spenser represented her as "Amaryllis" in his eclogue Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (1595) and dedicated his poem The Teares of the Muses (1591) to her.

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Lived 1559 to 1637 · aged 77