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Lady Mary Wroth (née Sidney; 18 October 1587 [1] – 1651/3) was an English noblewoman and a poet of the English Renaissance. A member of a distinguished literary family, Lady Wroth was among the first female English writers to have achieved an enduring reputation.
Learn about the life and works of Lady Mary Wroth, the first Englishwoman to write a sonnet sequence and a prose romance. Explore her literary influences, achievements, and challenges as a woman poet in the 17th century.
Learn about the life and works of Lady Mary Wroth, the first English woman writer to publish a prose fiction. Explore her family background, education, marriage, affair, and literary legacy.
A contemporary of Shakespeare in the early 17th century, Wroth was England’s first female writer of fiction. The startling thing about seeing this book was that her house in England...
Mar 3, 2017 · Lady Mary Wroth, the first English woman to write an extended work of prose fiction, was a contemporary of Shakespeare and saw him act in his plays.
Lady Mary Wroth (née Sidney) was born into a highly literary family, being the daughter of the poet Robert Sidney and niece of Sir Philip Sidney and his sister Mary, Countess of Pembroke. Lady Mary Wroth's mother, Barbara Sidney, née Gamage, was also a first cousin of Sir Walter Ralegh.
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Biography, bibliography, images, and other online resources about the seventeenth century woman writer, Lady Mary Wroth, who wrote the first original work of prose fiction in English -- The Countess of Montgomery's Urania.
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