LMW
's mother, born Barbara Gamage
, was of Welsh descent, a fact of which she was proud.
Hannay, Margaret P. Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth. Ashgate, 2010.
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She married against everyone's advice, two weeks after her father's death made her a great heiress...
Textual Production
Margaret Hoby
Letters survive at Penshurst that MH
wrote to her sister- and brother-in-law Barbara Sidney, née Gamage
and Robert Sidney
(parents of Lady Mary Wroth
). She wrote to Sir Robert Cecil
about her fears and...
Travel
Lady Mary Wroth
Mary Sidney (later LMW
) travelled with her mother
to visit her father
at Flushing, in the Netherlands (then an English possession), of which he was Governor.
Hannay, Margaret P. Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth. Ashgate, 2010.
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Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, 1983, pp. 3 - 75, 219.