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Biography

Name: Lady Mary Wroth
Variant Name: Mary Sidney
Birth Date: October 18, 1587
Death Date: 1653
Nationality: British
Gender: Female

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Biography of Lady Mary Wroth
6,179 words, approx. 21 pages
Lady Mary Wroth was the first Englishwoman to write a complete sonnet sequence as well as an original work of prose fiction. Although earlier women writers of the sixteenth century had mainly explored the genres of translation, dedication, and epitaph,...


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Lady Mary Wroth Information
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Lady Mary Wroth (1587–1651/3) was an English poet of the Renaissance. A member of a distinguished literary English family, Wroth was among the first female British writers to have achieved an enduring reputation. She is perhaps best known for...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Excerpt by Mary Ellen Lamb
23,434 words, approx. 78 pages
In the following excerpt, Lamb provides a biographical reading of Urania, arguing that it is a work of implicit female anger in the face of male sexual indiscretions.
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Critical Essay by Gary F. Waller
13,448 words, approx. 45 pages
In the following essay, Waller contends that Wroth seeks in her sonnet sequences to construct a gender-neutral autonomy, and explores the ways in Wroth fit into, defied, and influenced poetic images of women in the late Renaissance.
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Critical Essay by G. F. Waller
13,275 words, approx. 44 pages
In the following essay, Waller presents an overview of Wroth's themes and style in, as well as the publication history of, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus.
 


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