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Who was Elizabeth Boyle, and when did she marry Edmund Spenser?
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Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of Pembroke College, Cambridge, England.
Elizabeth Boyle was the second wife of the English poet Edmund Spenser. Following an impassioned courtship, the couple married in 1594.12
Their marriage is famously celebrated in Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion, a collection of poems published in 1595. This work is considered unique among Renaissance sonnet sequences for documenting a successful love affair that culminates in marriage.12