61. WebGuest - Open Directory : Arts : Literature : Authors : W : Wroth, Mary Sites Bibliography Lady mary wroth Compiled by Ron Cooley of the Universityof Saskatchewan. Lady mary wroth - By Arnie Sanders of Goucher College. http://directory.webguest.com/index.cgi/Arts/Literature/Authors/W/Wroth,_Mary/

To find a book, visit the WebGuest Bookstore or type your search term in the search box below: About Us Privacy Statement Acceptable Use Policy Legal Notices ... Contact Us the entire directory only in W/Wroth,_Mary Top Arts Literature Authors ... W : Wroth, Mary Sites: Bibliography: Lady Mary Wroth - Compiled by Ron Cooley of the University of Saskatchewan. Lady Mary Wroth - By Arnie Sanders of Goucher College. Provides an overview of "The Countess of Montgomery's Urania" and "Pamphilia to Amphialanthus," as well as a set of research questions. Lady Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?) - "Biography, works, and web resources for the renowned lady poet." Webpages at luminarium.org. Norton Topics Online: Portrait of Lady Mary Wroth - An image of Mary Wroth holding an archlute. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus - Renascence Editions text of the sonnet sequence from Lady Mary Wroth's "The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania" (1621). Last update: 1:49 PT, Saturday, April 28, 2001 Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. Submit a Site Open Directory Project Become an Editor

62. Petrarch mary wroth 1587?1651/53. Fr. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. 1 When night'sblack mantle could most darkness prove, And sleep, death's http://athena.english.vt.edu/~jmooney/renmats/wroth.htm

Mary Wroth Fr. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus When night's black mantle could most darkness prove, And sleep, death's Image, did my senses hire From knowledge of myself, then thoughts did move Swifter than those most swiftness need require: In sleep, a chariot drawn by winged desire I saw, where sat bright Venus, Queen of love, And at her feet, her son, still adding fire To burning hearts, which she did hold above; But one heart flaming more than all the rest The goddess held and put it to my breast. "Dear son, now shut," said she, "Thus must we win"; He her obeyed and martyred my poor heart; I, waking, hoped as dreams it would depart. Yet since, O me, a lover have I been. Love, leave to urge: thou know'st thou has the hand. T'is cowardice to strive where none resist; Pray thee leave off; I yield unto thy band; Do not thus still in thine own power persist; Behold, I yield: let forces be dismissed; I am thy subject, conquered, bound to stand, Never they foe, but did thy claim assist, Seeking thy due of those who did withstand;

63. Women it to the Queen, as did mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and they wereoften so widely read as to create actual scandals, as Lady mary wroth did with http://athena.english.vt.edu/~jmooney/renmats/women.htm

F inding S hakespeare's S isters In her now-famous 1929 essay "A Room of One's Own"in a passage often anthologized as "Shakespeare's Sister" Virginia Woolf laments the silencing of women in literary and real history, with particular emphasis on the Renaissance: We now know that more women were writing during Shakespeare's age than Woolf was aware of, yet their voices are fewer than those of men. Like men, they circulated their poetry in manuscript, but they also presented it to the Queen, as did Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and they were often so widely read as to create actual scandals, as Lady Mary Wroth did with her infamous prose romance The Countess of Montgomery's Urania Although there are more women writers to be found in the Renaissance, we will focus here on Queen Elizabeth I herself; Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Elizabeth Cary; and Aemilia Lanyer NOTE : Information on Mary Wroth can be found at the Sonnet site; selections from her poetry on the Mary Wroth page. Queen Elizabeth Mary Herbert Elizabeth Cary Aemilia Lanyer Queen Elizabeth I Elizabeth came to the throne in 1558 widely read and highly educated. She could translate Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, and German. During the age that was named for her, she became the muse of many artists and the subject of many poems and playsshe was, as Herbert notes, the wellspring from which all creative works flowed and was, in essence, a co-creator of them. Writers considered her to embody the female power associated with such mythological and biblical figures as Judith, Esther, and Minerva, and somelike Edmund Spenserworked to associate her with a romance tradition, the Arthurian legend, that legitimated her crown and gave to England a glorious past.

64. Gender Inn: Alphabetischer Suchindex Translate this page of Society and Manners in America 1742 Wright, Frances 3372 Wright, Sarah 722 wroth,Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 723 wroth, Urania 710 wroth, mary Wurzel des http://db.genderinn.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/n/suchindex?w=ad&bu=W

65. Wroth Family 1298 - 1614 m 1573 9 wroth, Anne b ~1560 Durants in Enfield, MDX, ENG d 1573 WROT272 9 wroth, mary (Marie) b ~1563 d 1573 WROT273 9 wroth http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/ODTs/WROTH.shtml

Directory Bottom Indices: Home Pedigrees ODTs Celebs ... Sources Gallery Annex Misc document.getElementById('FLAG').src = '../Images/loading.gif'; THIS IS A FREE SITE http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/ WROTH pages Pedigrees ODTs Celebs Sources Gallery Annex Wroth Family Roath, Wroath, Wroth, Wrothe Descendants of: John WROTHE Total population: 45 (Ancestors: 6) Link Summary: 2 Wroth links to other families 1 of 1 top prev next summary 45 Descendants of John WROTHE WROTH DAVIS STANSFIELD STARR SMITH ... TIBETOT WROTH *1 WROTHE, John b: 1298 Enfield, MDX, ENG #: WROT97 *+ +DE ENFIELDE, Margaret b: ~1300 Enfield, MDX, ENG #: WROT98 ] WROTHE, John b: ~1325 d: 1397 #: WROT96 + +DURANT, Maud (Matilda), of Enfield MDX b: Sep 1338 #: WROT130 -m: ~1355 Father : DURANT, Thomas Father : HAWTE, Thomas, of Haute Ct. KEN Father : RICH, Lord, of Leez Father Father * + +(WROTHE), Alice b: ~1330 #: WROT161 3 WROTH, John b: ~1350 Of, Enfield, Middlesex, England #: WROT162 * 3 WROTH, Agnes, of Enfield MDX b: ~1355 #: WROT1 * + +TYBOTOT, Payn, of Nettlestead SFK #:

66. I3884: Louisa Winifred ALLEY (ABT 1850 - ____) RESIDENCE Henrico Co. VA; BIRTH ABT 1680; RESOURCES See S812 S2256.Father Thomas HARRIS Mother mary JEFFERSON. JOHN wroth Knt. of Enfield. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/myff/d0056/g0000005.ht

My Southern Family Louisa Winifred ALLEY ABT 1850 - ID Number: I3884 RESIDENCE : Upper Lake, Lake Co. CA BIRTH : ABT 1850 RESOURCES : See: Family 1 Robert BUCKNELL MARRIAGE : 9 Aug 1870, Upper Lake, Lake, CA Sources INDEX Back to My Southern Family Home Page EMAIL Josephine Lindsay Bass and Becky Bonner HTML created by GED2HTML v3.6-WIN95 (Jan 18 2000) on 08/04/02 12:42:34 AM Central Standard Time Phebe FROST 23 Jan 1771 - 1838 ID Number: I1514 RESIDENCE BIRTH : 23 Jan 1771 DEATH : 1838, Madison Co., AL RESOURCES : See: Father: Thomas FROST Sr. Mother: Sarah Family 1 Israel STANDIFER MARRIAGE : 30 Dec 1797 _Joseph FROST Sr. _Thomas FROST Sr. Phebe FROST Sources INDEX Back to My Southern Family Home Page EMAIL Josephine Lindsay Bass and Becky Bonner HTML created by GED2HTML v3.6-WIN95 (Jan 18 2000) on 08/04/02 12:42:34 AM Central Standard Time Mary GREEN ABT 1650 - AFT 1705 ID Number: I24670 RESIDENCE : York Co. VA BIRTH : ABT 1650 DEATH : AFT 1705 RESOURCES : See: Father: Charles GREEN Mother: Elizabeth IVERSON Family 1 Notes _Charles GREEN Mary GREEN _Elizabeth IVERSON Sources INDEX Back to My Southern Family Home Page EMAIL Josephine Lindsay Bass and Becky Bonner HTML created by GED2HTML v3.6-WIN95 (Jan 18 2000)

67. Wroth, Excerpt From Urania Excerpt, Urania by Lady mary wroth (1621). Editors and annotators Andy Inlow,Emily Call, and Lee Ann Machosky . SOURCE. Back to top. wroth, mary. http://www.valpo.edu/english/emtexts/wroth.html

Excerpt, Urania by Lady Mary Wroth (1621). Editors and annotators: Andy Inlow, Emily Call, and Lee Ann Machosky INTRODUCTION TEXT NOTES WORKS CITED ... PRINTER COPY INTRODUCTION Back to top Lady Mary Wroth, the author of The Countesse of Mountgomerie's Urania, came from a family that was known for its literary talents. Wroth's uncle, Sir Philip Sidney, had authored Arcadia , and he aunt (Sidney's sister) Mary, the Countess of Pembroke, had translated the Psalms and was a patroness for many authors. Wroth was born in 1586, the same year that her uncle died. Like her uncle, she wrote both sonnets and a pastoral romance, although she wrote Urania well lafter both genres peaked in the late sixteenth century. In fact, Wroth mirrored Philip Sidney in Urania as the King of Pamphilia, who leaves his legacy for his niece, and mirrored Mary Sidney as the Queen of Naples, the mother of Amphilanthus and a mentor, of sorts, of Pamphilia. These character likenesses are only some of many that occur throughouth the romance. Although her work was well accepted by a few of the known poets during her time, it took almost 300 years for her to be recognized as one of the most influential women writers of her era. Even though Urania was printed in 1621, it was not reprinted until 1995.

68. Www.unb.ca/CACLALS/courses/fraser.txt culture. Writers to be studied in depth include mary wroth, ElizabethCary, and Aemilia Lanyer. INSTRUCTOR C. Luckyj DALHOUSIE http://www.unb.ca/CACLALS/courses/fraser.txt

69. Family Groups 8 wroth, Benjamin Blackiston b. 30 SEP 1783 d. ABT APR 1825 Kent Co., MD GenderMale Parents Father wroth, Kinvin Mother Blackiston, mary Priscilla Family http://www.merrittfamily.org/genealogy/ged4web/20010430b-MERRITT/f_7.htm

Family Groups 8 Individuals marked with a red dot are direct ancestors of [Living] Merritt Back to Main Page Gleaves, Martha Ann b. ABT 1784 Gender: Female Parents: Father: Gleaves, John Mother: Freeman, Hannah Family: Marriage:2 FEB 1808 Kent Co., MD Spouse: Wroth, Benjamin Blackiston Children: Wroth, Editha Gleaves Family: Marriage:18 FEB 1800 Spouse: Granger, William b. ABT 1782 d. BEF 1808 Gender: Male Parents: Father: Granger, Thomas Mother: Hanson, Margaret Back to Main Page Wroth, Benjamin Blackiston b. 30 SEP 1783 d. ABT APR 1825 Kent Co., MD Gender: Male Parents: Father: Wroth, Kinvin Mother: Blackiston, Mary Priscilla Family: Marriage:2 FEB 1808 Kent Co., MD Spouse: Gleaves, Martha Ann Children: Wroth, Editha Gleaves b. ABT 1810 Gender: Female Family: Marriage:ABT 1815 Spouse: Groome, Mary Back to Main Page Groome, Mary b. 2 MAR 1785 Gender: Female Parents: Father: Groome, Charles Mother: Kennard, Sarah Family: Marriage:ABT 1815 Spouse: Wroth, Benjamin Blackiston Family: Marriage:1802 Spouse: Ringgold, Josias b. ABT 1762 d. 7 FEB 1814 Gender: Male Parents: Father: Ringgold, Josias

70. I4900: ??? ( - ) Robert wroth _Richard NEWDIGATE _ _Margaret NEWDIGATE _ INDEX Created by GED2HTML v2.5b (4/12/96) on Tue Aug 6 172244 1996. mary. http://www.gendex.com/users/brunses/albertancestors/D0005/G0000040.html

Family 1 GARCIA RAMON IV SANCHO INDEX Created by GED2HTML v2.5b (4/12/96) on Tue Aug 6 17:22:44 1996 Humphrey PINNEY BIRTH : ABT 1588, England Family 1 Abigail PINNEY Humphrey PINNEY INDEX Created by GED2HTML v2.5b (4/12/96) on Tue Aug 6 17:22:44 1996 Agnes (Rose) DE CLARE Father: Gilbert DE CLARE Mother: Isabel MARSHAL Family 1 Roger DE MOWBRAY John DE MOWBRAY Agnes (Rose) DE CLARE _Isabel DE CLARE ... INDEX Created by GED2HTML v2.5b (4/12/96) on Tue Aug 6 17:22:44 1996 Robert WROTH DEATH Father: John WROTH Mother: Margaret NEWDIGATE Family 1 Jane HAUTE Thomas WROTH _John WROTH Robert WROTH ... INDEX Created by GED2HTML v2.5b (4/12/96) on Tue Aug 6 17:22:44 1996 Mary Family 1 Edward STEBBINS MARRIAGE : 18 Oct 1701 Mary INDEX Created by GED2HTML v2.5b (4/12/96) on Tue Aug 6 17:22:44 1996 Jane(Eleanor) NEELE Father: Francis NEELE Mother: Faith KEMPE Family 1 Henry HALL Elizabeth HALL Jane(Eleanor) NEELE INDEX Created by GED2HTML v2.5b (4/12/96) on Tue Aug 6 17:22:44 1996 William GLOVER BIRTH : 1653, Rappahannock Co, Farham Parish, Va DEATH : Henrico Co., Va

71. Apotheosis | Words | Lady Mary Wroth - - CAN PLEASING SIGHT MISFORTUNE EVER BRING Can pleasing sightmisfortune ever bring? Can firm desire a painful torment try? http://www.black-phoenix.net/cupcake/wroth.html

L ADY M ARY W ROTH CAN PLEASING SIGHT MISFORTUNE EVER BRING ALL ALONE IN SILENCE UNSEEN, UNKNOWN WHEN NIGHT'S BLACK MANTLE COULD MOST DARKNESS PROVE CAN PLEASING SIGHT MISFORTUNE EVER BRING Can pleasing sight misfortune ever bring? Can firm desire a painful torment try? Can winning eyes prove to the heart a sting? Or can sweet lips in treason hidden lie? The Sun most pleasing blinds the strongest eye If too much look'd on, breaking the sight's string; Desires still crossed must unto mischief hye, And as despair, a luckless chance may fling. Eyes, having won, rejecting proves a sting Killing the bud before the tree doth spring; Sweet lips not loving do as poison prove: Desire, sight, Eyes, lips, seek, see, prove, and find You love may win, but curses if unkind; Then show you harm's dislike, and joy in Love. HERE ALL ALONE IN SILENCE Here all alone in silence might I mourn: But how can silence be where sorrows flow? Sighs with complaints have poorer pains out-worn; But broken hearts can only true grief show. Drops of my dearest blood shall let Love know Such tears for her I shed, yet still do burn

72. Renaissance Forum: V2no1 (Spring 1997): Lisa Hopkins Lady mary wroth. 1996. The question of literary value is certainly one which hasconcerned Ron Pritchard in his edition of the poems of Lady mary wroth. http://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/EL_Web/renforum/v2no1/hopkins.htm

Keele University Press Ryburn Renaissance Texts and Studies series Kate Chedgzoy, Melanie Hansen and Suzanne Trill. Eds. 1996. Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing . Keele: Keele University Press. 208 pp. ISBN 1-85331-108-1. £35.00. Lady Mary Wroth. 1996. Poems: A Modernized Edition . Edited by R.E. Pritchard. Keele: Keele University Press. 224 pp. ISBN 1-85331-169-3. £25.00. Elizabeth Cary. 1996. The Tragedy of Mariam the Fair Queen of Jewry . Edited by Stephanie Wright. Keele: Keele University Press. 128 pp. ISBN 1-85331-104-9. £25.00 hb. £10.95 pb. Richard Dutton. Ed. 1996. Jacobean Civic Pageants . Keele: Keele University Press. 189 pp. ISBN 1-85331-107. £35.00. The collection of essays in Voicing Women Urania , while at the other extreme is Stephanie Wright's castigation of an approach 'which is predominantly historical and consequently devalues the very text which it is trying to promote', and her suggestion that we might need to choose between The Tragedy of Mariam and Othello . For the most part, however, these essays do not offer a doctrinaire insistence on recognition for the neglected writers they examine; rather they treat them with such informed and critically alert enthusiasm that they can hardly help but infect their readers with it.

73. Temple English: Faculty Profiles Among her more extended projects is Voicing Violence, which looks at the use writerssuch as Lanyer, wroth, mary Sidney, Elizabeth Cary, and others make of http://www.temple.edu/english/faculty/smiller.html

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS Home People Courses Undergrad ... Directory Shannon Miller Shannon Miller's current research and publication projects focus on the production of texts by women in the early modern period. She has forthcoming articles on Aemilia Lanyer's use of Spenser as an authorizing figure within her poetry, and on Mary Wroth's use of architectural motifs as a strategy for constructing an early modern female subjectivity. Among her more extended projects is "Voicing Violence," which looks at the use writers such as Lanyer, Wroth, Mary Sidney, Elizabeth Cary, and others make of regulatory practices dissections, witchcraft, infanticide, executions within their texts. The state-sanctioned, and gender-specific, violence of the period becomes, in the hands of these writers, mechanisms for describing the act of writing. Miller is also working on a second project on John Milton and 17th century women writers. Entitled "Engendering the Fall," this project examines the intertextual, and productive, connections between

74. Calvert Royal Ancestry Thomas wroth m. Joan Newdigate 16. Robert wroth m. Jane Hawte 17. SirThomas wroth m. mary Rich 18. Elizabeth wroth m. George Mynne 19. http://www.maui.net/~mauifun/royal.htm

Calvert Royal Ancestry Here are three Calvert Royalty Lines........... William the Conqueror Calvert Hamrick More Lineage ... Homepage

75. William BACKUS / Elizabeth PRATT Thomas wroth / mary RICH. Husband Thomas wroth. Married at Died 1573, at FatherRobert wroth. Mother Jane HAUTE. Spouses mary RICH. Wife mary RICH. Born at http://papayne.rootsweb.com/d0004/f0000033.html

William BACKUS Elizabeth PRATT Husband: William BACKUS Born: at: England; "of Norwich, CT." Married: at: Died: ABT 1720 at: Norwich, CT. Father: William BACKUS Mother: Sarah CHARLES Spouses: Elizabeth PRATT Wife: Elizabeth PRATT Born: 1 Feb 1641 at: "of Saybrook, Ct." Died: at: Father: William PRATT Mother: Elizabeth CLARK(E) Spouses: William BACKUS CHILDREN INDEX HOME HTML created by GED2HTML v3.5e-WIN95 (Sep 26 1998) on 03/30/2002 11:07:53 Samuel LEONARD / (Unknown) Husband: Samuel LEONARD Born: ABT 1584 at: "of Monmouthshire, Wales" Married: at: Died: at: Father: Mother: Spouses: Wife: CHILDREN Name: Solomon LEONARD Born: at: Monmouthshire, England Married: at: Died: BEF 1 May 1671 at: Bridgewater, ? Spouses: Sarah CHANDLER INDEX HOME HTML created by GED2HTML v3.5e-WIN95 (Sep 26 1998) on 03/30/2002 11:07:53 George SOUTHCOTE Alice COLE Husband: George SOUTHCOTE Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Father: Thomas SOUTHCOTE Mother: Elizabeth FITZ-WILLIAM Spouses: Alice COLE Sarah THOMAS Martha SUCKLING Wife: Alice COLE Born: at: "of Buckland Tout Saints" Died: at: Father: John COLE Mother: Spouses: George SOUTHCOTE CHILDREN INDEX HOME HTML created by GED2HTML v3.5e-WIN95 (Sep 26 1998)

76. Family Names TUVWXYZ Mabel wroth, Abt 1541, 1597, Of Durrants, Enfield, Middlesex, England.mary wroth, Abt 1563, Of Durrants, Enfield, Middlesex, England. http://www.isomedia.com/homes/krhodes/alpha/tuvwxyz.htm

77. Elizabeth WROTH, B: - WINTERBOTHAM, Hamden WOOD, Robert WOODS, Margarett WOOLSEY, Thomas WRENCH, Benjamin( 15 AUG 1747) WRENCH, mary ( 1696 - 19 JUL 1775) wroth, Elizabeth wroth http://stanfield.und.ac.za/gedhtree/oldjermy/ipw.html

The Jermy Family of Norfolk and Suffolk W Surnames INDEX A B C ... P Q R S T U ... W X Y Z OTHER WADE, Victoria Anne ( Private - ) WALDEGRAVE, Elizabeth WALDEGRAVE, George ( 1568 - 15 JAN 1636) WALDEGRAVE, Mary WALDEGRAVE, Theophila WALDEGRAVE, William WALDEGRAVE, Winifrid ... WALDO, Elizabeth ( ABT 1645 - ) WALTERS, James WARD, Elizabeth ( 31 OCT 1723 - 1798) WARNER, Alexandra Sarah ( Private - ) WARNER, Charles Thomas ( Private - ) WARNER, Eleanor Felicity ( Private - ) WARNER, George William ( Private - ) WARNER, Henry Thomas ( Private - ) WARNER, Katherine Jocelyn ( Private - ) WARNER, Lucy Claire ( Private - ) WARNER, Philip Courtenay ( Private - ) WARNER, Richard Edward ( Private - ) WARNER, Robert Henry ( Private - ) WARNER, Rosalie Mary ( Private - ) WARNER, Sarah Louise ( Private - ) WARNER, William WATERS, Elizabeth ( - MAY 1642) WATERS, Maria ( - BEF 1871) WATERS, Mary Ann WATSON, Burton WEBB, John WEISS, Alison Margaret ( Private - ) WEISS, Andrew William ( Private - ) WEISS, Claudia Dahan ( Private - ) WELD, Elizabeth

78. A Little Light Summer Reading... London Oxford University Press, 1966. wroth, mary, Lady. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus.In The Poems of Lady mary wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alwatson/lists.html

Welcome. In a moment of shameless vanity, I've converted my reading list for the summer (and the fall, and the spring) into an HTML file for your perusal. Pray for my sanity. Topic I: Poetry of the English Renaissance A. Major poets Bender, Robert M., ed. Five Courtier Poets of the English Renaissance . New York: Washington Square Press, 1967. Campion, Thomas. Works , ed. Walter R. Davis. New York: Norton, 1970. Crashaw, Richard. The Poems: English, Latin and Greek , ed. L. C. Martin. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Donne, John. The Complete English Poems , ed. A. J. Smith. London: Penguin, 1986. Herbert, George. The Temple . In The Complete English Poems , ed. John Tobin. London: Penguin, 1991. Herrick, Robert. Poems , ed. L. C. Martin. London: Oxford University Press, 1965. Jonson, Ben. Poems of Ben Jonson , ed. Ian Donaldson. London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Lanyer, Aemilia. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum , ed. Susanne Woods. Women Writers in English 1350-1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Marlowe, Christopher.

79. English 5265A -- Christina Luckyj 3. Final Paper 50% (Proposal 10%; Paper 40%) You may choose to work on one of the major authors studied in class (Elizabeth Cary, mary wroth, Aemilia Lanier http://www.dal.ca/~luckyj/ENG5265A.html

ENGLISH 5265A Writing Women/Women Writing in Early Modern England 1540-1640 Professor Christina Luckyj 1444 Henry St. (2nd floor) Tel. 494 3898 Email luckyj@is.dal.ca The objective of this class is to explore how the early modern Englishwoman contributed to the literature of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. What and why did she write, and for what audience? What was the climate in Renaissance England like for a woman who wanted to write? What models were available to her, and how did she modify or transform them for her own purposes? What perceptions of gender emerged from her writing? What are the risks and the benefits of studying women's writing as a group and in isolation? What are the risks and benefits of developing and studying a "canon" of early women's writing? What are the problems of being confined largely to print materials? Why study women's writing and how do we evaluate it? Texts: Cary, Elizabeth. The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry . Ed. Margaret Ferguson and Barry Weller. U of California P, 1993.

80. THE DISTURBING LADY MARY WROTH THE DISTURBING LADY mary wroth. Lady mary wroth is one of very few canonized womanpoets in the 17th century canon (Strickland lect. 1994. wroth, Lady mary. http://www.english.ilstu.edu/strickland/215/sample/swarts9.html

Jason M. Swarts English 215 Prof. Ron Strickland THE DISTURBING LADY MARY WROTH Lady Mary Wroth is one of very few canonized woman poets in the 17th century canon (Strickland lect. Oct 11 94.). This fact alone lends a type of importance to Wroth that sets her off from her male contemporaries. Wroth wrote poems at about the same time that Robert Herrick, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and Sir Philip Sidney (to name a few) wrote their courtly lyrics. Wroth wasn't the only woman writer from the time, instead, she was simply one of very few that were saved from historical anonymity. Lady Mary Wroth writes using a fairly conventional form of sonnet making, the "Carpe Diem" style. In using this style, she achieves an interesting internal critique of itself as poetic form. Wroth shows how the form is exclusive and at times self-defeating. Wroth exposes these faults by elaborating on images of masochistic love and how this type of love is furthered by the use of military metaphor. Lastly, I will discuss how Wroth's use of double narration and monologue format also serve to problematize the "Carpe Diem" style. First, this form of poetry was used to express the love, desires, and sexual wants of the narrating poet. From what I understand of 17th century society (and in fact Western society in general) is that it is more socially acceptable for a man to openly express his loves, desires, and sexual wants. For this reason, the "Carpe Diem" style is particularly well- suited to these male poets in that it allows for a concise capsulized proposal that blatantly expresses love,sex, and desires of the men.

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