Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: “And lucky it was, perhaps, for her that Sidney's Arcadia was still in petto, or Mr.”
The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf: “Essay titled "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia"; Woolf writes at length on the romance, e.g. "In the Arcadia, as in some luminous globe, all the seeds of English fiction lie latent."”
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving: “nothing is read nowadays but Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Sackville's stately plays and Mirror for Magistrates, or the fine-spun euphuisms of the 'unparalleled John Lyly.'"”