Lady Mary Wroth
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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
). Outside this landmark publication, she is known to have written other poems, a play, and surviving letters.
- BirthName: Lady Mary Sidney was christened after .She received the courtesy title of Lady not at birth but when her father became .
- Married: Wroth
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