Alethea Howard itu apa sih?

Alethea Howard, Baroness ke-XIV Talbot, Baroness ke-XVII Strange of Blackmere, Baroness ke-XIII Furnivall, Comtesse Arundel (1585 – 3 Juni 1654), née Lady Alethea Talbot (diucapkan "Al-ee-thia"), adalah pelindung dan kolektor seni terkenal dan salah satu ilmuwan wanita pertama yang diterbitkan di Inggris. Dia adalah istri Thomas Howard, Earl ke-XXI Arundel dengan siapa dia membangun salah satu koleksi seni terpenting Inggris abad ke-XVII. Dia adalah putri bungsu Gilbert Talbot, Earl ke-VII Shrewsbury dan istrinya Mary Cavendish; dan saudara perempuan dua comtesse lainnya: Mary Herbert, Comtesse Pembroke dan Elizabeth Grey, Comtesse Kent.

L. Cust, 'Notes on the collections formed by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, and Surry', in The Burlington Magazine 1911/12, XX, pp. 97–100, 233–236 and 341–343.

Dianne Duggan, 'Tart Hall: the Countess of Arundel's 'Casino' at Whitehall', in The Renaissance Villa in Britain 1500–1700, eds Malcolm Airs and Geoffrey Tyack (Spire Books 2007)

M. F. S. Hervey, The life, correspondence and collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, Cambridge 1921, Appendix V, The Arundel inventory, pp. 473–500.

D. Howarth, Lord Arundel and his circle (New Haven/London 1985)

J. Rabe, 'Mediating between Art and Nature: The Countess of Arundel at Tart Hall', in Sites of Mediation: Connected Histories of Places, Processes, and Objects in Europe and Beyond, 1450–1650, eds. Susanna Burghartz e.a. (Brill 2016)