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Sets the Standard
Josephine Roberts' work on Wroth sets the standard for scholarship in Early Modern English writers, both in depth of research and clarity of presentation.

Fascinating, thoroughly scholarly edition
Roberts' edition leaves any Renaissance scholar in her debt.Having tried to read Wroth's work on microfiche, I can attest to the near-impossibility of the task; that Roberts collated 27 copies of the book is astonishing tome.Her introduction is excellent, her research impeccable, her writingfluid. ... Read more

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Despite her fascinating life and her importance as a writer, until now Lady Mary Wroth has never been the subject of a full-length biography. Margaret Hannay's reliance on primary sources results in some corrections, as well as additions, to our knowledge of Wroth's life, including Hannay's discovery of the career of her son William, the marriages of her daughter Katherine, her grandchildren, her last years, the date of her death, and the subsequent history of her manuscripts. This biography situates Lady Mary Wroth in her family and court context, emphasizing the growth of the writer's mind in the sections on her childhood and youth, with particular attention to her learned aunt, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, as literary mentor, and to her Continental connections, notably Louise de Coligny, Princess of Orange, and her stepson Prince Maurice.Subsequent chapters of the biography treat her experience at the court of Queen Anne, her relationships with parents and siblings, her love for her cousin William Herbert, her marriage to Robert Wroth, the birth and early death of her only legitimate child, her finances and properties, her natural children, her grandchildren, and her last years in the midst of England's civil wars. Throughout the biography attention is paid to the complex connections between Wroth's life and work. The narrative is enhanced with a chronology; family trees for the Sidneys and Wroths; a map of Essex, showing where Wroth lived; a chart of family alliances; portraits; and, illustrations from her manuscripts. ... Read more

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This is the first modernized edition of the poems of Lady Mary Wroth. Born circa 1587 and married in 1604, Lady Mary was part of the Queen's entourage at the court of King James I. The poems reproduced here are from Urania, a chivalric romance published in 1621, and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, a sonnet sequence. ... Read more

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Cherished Torment offers the first detailed account of the intellectual foundation of the first prose romance published by a woman in English: The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, written by Lady Mary Wroth, the niece of Sir Philip Sidney. A sophisticated and erudite study, Cherished Torment moves beyond the intriguing and scandalous events of Wroth's personal life that have understandably captivated the attention of many modern readers to a closer look at the latter's masterful integration of the issues fueling her era's political, scientific and philosophical debates. ... Read more

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" Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1587-1653) wrote the first sonnet sequence in English by a woman, one of the first plays by a woman, and the first published work of fiction by an Englishwoman. Yet, despite her status as a member of the distinguished Sidney family, Wroth met with disgrace at court for her authorship of a prose romance, which was adjudged an inappropriate endeavor for a woman and was forcibly withdrawn from publication. Only recently has recognition of Wroth's historical and literary importance been signaled by the publication of the first modern edition of her romance, The Countess of Mountgomeries Urania. Naomi Miller offers an illuminating study of this significant early modern woman writer. Using multiple critical/theoretical perspectives, including French feminism, new historicism, and cultural materialism, she examines gender in Wroth's time. Moving beyond the emphasis on victimization that shaped many previous studies, she considers the range of strategies devised by women writers of the period to establish voices for themselves. Where previous critics have viewed Wroth primarily in relation to her male literary predecessors in the Sidney family, Miller explores Wroth's engagement with a variety of discourses, reading her in relation to a broad range of English and continental authors, both male and female, from Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare to Aemilia Lanyar, Elizabeth Cary, and Marguerite de Navarre. She also contextualizes Wroth's writing in relation to a variety of nonliterary texts of the period, both political and domestic. Thanks to Miller's sensitive readings, Wroth's writings provide a lens through which to view gender relations in the early modern period.

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This study demonstrates the extent to which reading and writing were gendered acts in 16th- and early 17th-century England. Renaissance gender ideology did not prevent women from writing altogether, but it affected all writing by creating different standards of acceptability for female writers than for their male counterparts. Lamb explores the effect of this gendered ideology of authors in a famous Renaissance family - the Sidneys: Sir Philip Sidney, his sister, the Countess of Pembroke, and his niece, Mary Wroth, two notable and productive women authors of the time. Unlike other works which analyze gender only in terms of women's writing, Mary Lamb explores gender as a determining force in the works of both men and women of the Sidney circle. ... Read more

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This volume of poetry contains both Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, by Lady Mary Worth, and Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, and Sir Francis Beaumont. ... Read more

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Chapters: Artemisia Gentileschi, Lady Mary Wroth, Martin Peerson, Kazimierz Siemienowicz, Theodore de Mayerne, Szymon Starowolski, William Basse, Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy, Thomas Savile, 1st Earl of Sussex, John Haynes, Zhao Yingcheng, Jacob Pynas, Matthias Stom, Dario Castello, Pieter de Grebber, John Arundell, Henry Vaughan, Frans Banning Cocq, John Abbot, Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig, Clara Peeters, Deborah Moody, Martin Parker, Sir John Fenwick, 1st Baronet, Alexius Sylvius Polonus, Sir Edward Waldegrave, 1st Baronet, Pieter Neeffs I, John Thorpe, Harmen Steenwijck, Richard Jones, Francesco Guarino, Francesco Fontana, Richard Johnson, Willem Hondius, Giacomo Alberelli, Susanna Van Steenwijk, Philip Gyselaer, Luis Belmonte Bermúdez. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 122. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Artemisia Gentileschi (8 July 1593ca. 1656) was an Italian Early Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation influenced by Caravaggio. In an era when women painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community, she was the first female painter to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence. She was one of the first female artists to paint historical and religious paintings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a woman's reach. Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome on 8 July 1593, the eldest child of the Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi. Artemisia was introduced to painting in her father's workshop, showing much more talent than her brothers, who worked alongside her. She learned drawing, how to mix color and how to paint. Since her father's style took inspiration from Caravaggio during that period, her style was just as heavily influenced in turn. But her approach to subject matter was d...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=774547 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on March 22, 1994. The length of the article is 603 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth.
Author: Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1994
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: v47Issue: n1Page: p218(3)

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This digital document is an article from Early Modern Literary Studies, published by Matthew Steggle on September 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1305 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Review of Lady Mary Wroth, The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania.(Book Review)
Author: Bernadette Andrea
Publication: Early Modern Literary Studies (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2001
Publisher: Matthew Steggle
Volume: 7Issue: 2Page: NA

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A beautifully produced paperback of Lady Mary Wroth's work. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on September 22, 1996. The length of the article is 565 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Sidney Family Romance: Mary Wroth, William Herbert, and the Early Modern Construction of Gender.
Author: Barbara K. Lewalski
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1996
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: v49Issue: n3Page: p667(2)

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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on June 22, 1998. The length of the article is 753 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Changing the Subject: Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender in Early Modern England.
Author: Bernadette Andrea
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1998
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: v51Issue: n2Page: p697(2)

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The discovery and re-examination of women authors has been a key part of early modern women's studies, but a major problem has been the inaccessibility of the texts themselves. This series is designed to make available a comprehensive collection of writing in English from 1500 to 1700, both by women and for and about them. Each text is preceded by a short introduction providing an overview of the life and work of the writer, along with a survey of important relevant scholarship. The series is in two parts, covering the periods 1500 to 1640, and 1641 to 1700. It is complemented by a separate facsimile series of essential works and original monographs. ... Read more