<i>The Correspondence (c. 1626–1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester</i> . Ed. by M <scp>ichael</scp> G. B <scp>rennan</scp> , N <scp>oel</scp> J. K <scp>innamon</scp> and M <scp>argaret</scp> P. H <scp>annay</scp> . <i>The Correspondence (c. 1626–1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester</i> . Ed. by BrennanMichael G., KinnamonNoel J. and HannayMargaret P.. Farnham: Ashgate2010. xxix + 227 pp. £60. <scp>isbn</scp> 978 0 7546 5769 9.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The extensive papers documenting the lives and writings of the Sidney family of Penshurst Place between the 1540s and 1740s have been exploited by historians since the mid-eighteenth century, thanks (if that's the right word) to the labours of Arthur Collins, who published many of them in his Letters and Memorials of State in 1746. To the outrage of later Sidneys he did not hesitate to annotate and even cut up the letters and papers he was editing. Nevertheless, his two volumes are still referred to today by the growing number of scholars researching the role of a family with more than its fair share of literary geniuses and important historical actors: Sir Henry Sidney (Elizabeth I's Lord Deputy in Ireland), his children Sir Philip Sidney (poet), the Countess of Pembroke (poet and dramatist), and Robert Sidney, first Earl of Leicester of the second creation, (poet and musician), Robert's children Lady Mary Wroth (poet and prose writer), the second Earl (learned collector of an extensive library), and that Earl's gifted sons, Philip (soldier and art collector), Algernon (political philosopher and republican martyr), and Henry Sidney, Earl of Romney (a central figure in the Glorious Revolution of 1688).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.803 | 0.759 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".