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Lady mary wroth biography of rory mcilroy Lady Mary Wroth Meanwhile, her Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is a sonnet sequence and is also considered as the first sonnet by a lady writer. Though there were other female writers of the sixteenth century who confined themselves to the translation and epitaph writing, she broke the tradition and wrote about secular love, poetry and romances. As she came from a prominent literary family, known for its patronage of the arts, she was radical in her time. Women were expected to be innocent, silent and submissive, but she did not follow the tradition and write a novel full of romance.

Texts and Biographies

    The Renascence Editions site at the University of Oregon has the complete text of Pamphilia and Amphilanthus -- the sonnet sequence from Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, along with a brief biography, critical introduction, notes, and bibliography.

     has a section devoted to Lady Mary Wroth, again with a short biography and the texts of some of the poetry (including a few audio files!).

     As One Phoenix at the University of Saskatchewan also has a section on Mary Wroth, along with ones about Margaret Cavendish, Aemilia Lanyer, and Katherine Philips.

    An electronic text version of the Urania is available from the subscription-only site, Literature Online.
Click here for the US Site.

    High resolution page images of the complete original printed edition of the Urania is available from the subscription-only site, Early English Books Online.

Other Resources

    Our own CERES (Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service) also offers news and reviews of online resources.

Lady mary wroth biography of rory A member of a distinguished literary family, Lady Wroth was among the first female English writers to have achieved an enduring reputation. Penshurst Place was one of the great country houses in the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. It was a centre of literary and cultural activity and its gracious hospitality is praised in Ben Jonson 's famous poem To Penshurst. During a time when most women were illiterate, Wroth had the privilege of a formal education, which was obtained from household tutors under the guidance of her mother. Wroth danced before Queen Elizabeth on a visit to Penshurst and again in court in


The Links page makes an especially useful starting point for exploring Renaissance resources on the Internet.

     Norton Topics Online offers an useful resource page on "Gender, Family, Household: Early Seventeenth Century Norms and Controversies", which includes a section on the Sidney family, Penshurst Place, transcriptions of some of Robert Sidney's letters to his wife, and images.

It also has some interesting excerpts from contemporary texts illustrating various gender-based issues in early modern England.

     Penshurst Place has its own homepage on the internet, with a brief history of the house, directions and visiting hours, as well as a fantastic degree java-driven tour, which is the next best thing to actually being there!