Mary Wroth: Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 10

by Betty S. Travitsky and Josephine A. Roberts

Mary Wroth (1587-1653?) was niece and god-daughter of Mary Sidney Herbert. She was married in 1604 to Sir Robert Wroth with whom she joined the Court circle of James I. In 1618 she began work on her enormous prose romance The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania. The first known work of original fiction by an Englishwoman it reflects her experience as an eyewitness to the turbulent Jacobean Court. Drawing upon a wide range of reading Wroth created a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185928101X
• ISBN13: 9781859281017
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"