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
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland
The poet Lady Mary Wroth was an aunt of DSCS (whose father was Wroth's younger brother). She was probably writing her romance Urania about the time that Dorothy was born.
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...
Family and Intimate relationships W. H. Auden
Nicholas Jenkins of Stanford University formerly maintained on his website at http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/ a section called W. H. Auden. Family Ghosts, designed to show how Auden's family, despite his claims to ordinariness, sprang from a...
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...
death Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
She is buried in the choir of Salisbury Cathedral, under the steps to the high altar.
Her niece and god-daughter Lady Mary Wroth , had published her Urania just two months earlier, but her...

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