Lady Mary Wroth

Lady Mary Wroth was a poet and writer (1586–1652).

Also recorded as Lady Mary Sydney; Mary Sidney Wroth; Lady Mary Wroth.

Lady Mary Wroth in brief

Born
1586
Died
1652
Known for
poet and writer
Contents

Identity and origins

Lady Mary Wroth was recorded at birth as Mary Sidney. The authorities additionally record the headings Lady Mary Sydney, Mary Sidney Wroth and Lady Mary Wroth. Her recorded language was English.

She was the child of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester and Barbara Sidney, Countess of Leicester. She married Robert Wroth. One child is recorded: James Wroth.

Catalogued works

5 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1648 to 2011.

Love's Victory. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. The Countess of Montgomery's Urania. Intimacy and sexuality in the age of Shakespeare / James M. Bromley., dated 2011, held by Wellcome Collection. English recipe book, 17th century and later, dated 1648-early 19th century, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

20 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

“The Honorable Lady Wroth” (1630–51), Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth, 2016. Wroth, Lady Mary (fl 1621), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018. Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth, 2016. Lady Mary Wroth, A Sourcebook for English Lyric Poetry, 2023. Sleuthing in the Archives: The Life of Lady Mary Wroth, Re-Reading Mary Wroth, 2015. Handbook of Equine Anaesthesia, 1999. When I beheld the Image of my dear, 1998. 5 [Grief, killing grief:: have nott my torments bin], 1998. 4 [Love leave to urge, thou know’st thou hast the hand], 1998. 6 [An end fond Jealousy, alas I know], 1998. The Triumph of Love: Exploring the Theme of Love in Lady Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory, Research Journal for Social Affairs, 2025. “Many Ciphers, Although But One for Meaning”: Lady Mary Wroth’s Many-Sided Monogram, English Literary Renaissance, 2022. THE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN POET IN LADY MARY WROTH’S PAMPHILIA TO AMPHILANTUS, Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2023. Lady Mary Sidney Herbert a Lady Mary Wroth: labutí píseň a imaginativní svět jako součást rodinného odkazu (Lady Mary Sidney Herbert and Lady Mary Wroth: a Swan song and Fictional World as a part of Sidneyan legacy ), Ostium, 2017. Ekphraseis et écriture dans le roman pastoral The Countesse of Montgomery’s Urania (1621) de Lady Mary Wroth, Etudes Epistémè, 2022. “The True Forme of Love”: Transforming the Petrarchan Tradition in the Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth (1587–1631), Prague Journal of English Studies, 2016. Curiosité(s), vanité et mélancolie dans The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania (1621) de Lady Mary Wroth, Etudes Epistémè, 2015. L’héroïsme au féminin : réécriture des codes dans Pamphilia to Amphilanthus de Lady Mary Wroth, Revue LISA, 2008. “Constant Art”: Concept of Love in Poetry of Mary Wroth in Dialogue with the Male Poetic Tradition, American and British Studies Annual, 2018. La pastorale dramatique est-elle un genre « féminin » en Angleterre au XVIIe siècle ? Le cas de The Shepherds’ Paradise (1633) de Walter Montagu, Etudes Epistémè, 2022.

Digitised editions and texts

1 digitised item associated with this heading is catalogued by Internet Archive.

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (2008) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 12 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1586Lady Mary Wroth born.
  2. 1648English recipe book, 17th century and later (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 1652Lady Mary Wroth died.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Lady Mary Wroth, A Sourcebook for English Lyric Poetry, 2023

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth, 2016

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Open Library author record for Lady Mary Wroth (Internet Archive), 12 catalogued works.

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

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  4. 4.

    Sleuthing in the Archives: The Life of Lady Mary Wroth, Re-Reading Mary Wroth, 2015

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Wroth, Lady Mary (fl 1621), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 9 articles naming Lady Mary Wroth.

    open access index · Unverified

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  7. 7.

    Internet Archive, 1 digitised item catalogued under Lady Mary Wroth as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  8. 8.

    Semantic Scholar corpus, 8 publications naming Lady Mary Wroth.

    scholarly index · Unverified

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  9. 9.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 2 works naming Lady Mary Wroth.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  10. 10.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q2325216: Lady Mary Wroth

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

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  11. 11.

    “Lady Mary Wroth”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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