Lady mary wroth biography of martin

Biography

by Nandini Das

Lady Mary Wroth is best known today as the first English woman writer to have published an original work of prose fiction.

Lady Mary Sidney Wroth (b.

Lady Mary Wroth on the net.

How do we know what Lady Mary Wroth was really like?

Lady Mary Wroth () was an English noblewoman and one of the significant literary figures of the English Renaissance.

This paper will attempt to examine the various acts of writing in the Urania in order to assess the complexity of authorship for an early modern woman writer.

For her contemporaries, however, her primary identity was as a member of the illustrious Sidney family. As the elaborately decorated title-page of her book announced to the world in , she was, after all, "Daughter to the right Noble Robert Earl of Leicester, and Niece to the ever famous, and renowned Sir Philip Sidney knight, and to the most excellent Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke." It was an identity in which Wroth herself took enormous pride, and which left a decided mark on all her writing.

Mary’s father, Sir Robert Sidney, had married the wealthy Glamorganshire heiress Lady Barbara Gamage in in spite of Queen Elizabeth’s initial opposition to the match.

Mary was born on October 18, or , into an extended network of kinship that connected some of the most important families of the Elizabethan court.

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