Lady Mary Wroth

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Standard Name: Wroth, Lady Mary
Birth Name: Mary Sidney
Styled: Lady Mary Sidney
Married Name: Lady Mary Wroth
LMW achieved two firsts with a single publication in 1621: the first full-length fiction (a prose romance) to be written in English by a woman and the first sonnet sequence in English by a woman (discounting the less than certain ascription of a sonnet sequence based on Psalm 51 to Anne Locke ). Outside this landmark publication, she is known to have written other poems, a play, and surviving letters.
Full-length portrait of Lady Mary Wroth attributed to John de Critz the elder, c. 1620. She stands holding a theorbo that reaches to her shoulder, in a picture with striking touches of red. Wroth's stiff, embroidered gown and large, transparent ruff are pale; her petticoat and belt are red, and her arms, shoulders, and bust are picked out with red bows. She rests an arm of a red sofa, with red curtains behind.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Mary Oxlie
This work listed MO as one of its Women among the moderns eminent for poetry. Phillips, nephew and pupil of John Milton , seems quite interested in the existence of women poets. Others in his...
Textual Production Lady Hester Pulter
In the same volume as her poems, LHP 's scribe copied the first part of The Unfortunate Florinda. Pulter herself made some corrections, and her unfinished draft of the second part, on loose sheets...
Family and Intimate relationships Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
HET extensively researched her own genealogy. Among the families from which she established that she was the sole representative
Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Rhymes and Legends. Richard Bentley and Son.
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was that of the husband of the poet Lady Mary Wroth (who, however, herself left...
Textual Features Augusta Webster
In these unsentimental poems AW revises the conventions of the sonnet sequence in rather the way that Lady Mary Wroth had done in 1621. She focuses on a love-object, here the daughter, Loverlike to me...
Dedications Hannah Wolley
This has three dedications: to Anne Wroth (daughter of Anne, Lady Maynard ), to Wroth's daughter Mary , and to To all Ladyes and Gentlewomen in general, who love the Art of Preserving and Cookery...

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