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Lady Mary Wroth (née Sidney; 18 October 1587 – 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.
Lady Mary Wroth was the first Englishwoman to write a complete sonnet sequence as well as an original work of prose fiction. Although earlier women writers of the 16th century had mainly explored the genres of translation, dedication, and epitaph, Wroth openly transgressed the traditional boundaries by writing secular love poetry and romances.
Lady Mary Wroth is best known today as the first English woman writer to have published an original work of prose fiction. For her contemporaries, however, her primary identity was as a member of the illustrious Sidney family.
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...
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.
25 de nov. de 2014 · Lady Mary Sidney Wroth (b. 1587–d. 1631/3) belonged to the Sidney family, a prominent literary dynasty in early modern England. Her substantial creative output remained largely unknown until the late 20th century, however, when a number of renowned scholars revived academic interest in 16th- and 17th-century women writers.
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.
