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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Mary Wroth."”.
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"This stage of woe" : the petrarchanism of Mary Wroth
Mary Wroth, the first Englishwoman to write a Petrarchan sonnet sequence, creates a counterdiscourse which comments on and contributes to English love poetry. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is addressed from a female lover to a male beloved, and this thesis discusses the implications of this unusual …
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Picturing women in Urania by Mary Wroth and Clelie by Madeleine de Scudery
… part begins by examining the cultural milieux of Mary Wroth and Madeleine de Scudéry, and explores some of the evidence regarding the possible existence of an early modern English equivalent of French ‘salons’. This chapter measures the extent to which Urania and Clélie might be constructed as …
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"Invidiam viam aut faciam": "I will find a way or make one" The poetic practice of political counsel in the courts of Elizabeth I and James I
… from the Sidney family---Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Mary Wroth---with a history of service to Tudor monarchs, and one non-aristocratic writer, Aemilia Lanyer, who claimed to be a poetical descendant of a Sidney, responded to the efforts of Elizabeth I and James I to restrict …
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Making Love in the English Reformation: Carving Images in the Temple of Our Harts
… Whetstone, Philip Sidney, John Donne, Lady Mary Wroth, and John Milton. I show that poets writing in the long English Reformation developed poetic strategies for amorous, political, and religious self-fashioning that embraced both Catholic and Protestant pieties. Building upon yet …
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Out Of Compass: English Women’s Writing And The Cultures Of Travel, 1604-1680
… and autobiographical writings of Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and a traveling Quaker minister, Alice Curwen, to demonstrate that while women were certainly aware of the social stigma that could be attached to their travels, they also understood that women’s travel was necessary …
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"Nor fear I censure" : early modern women writers and issues of authority, 1578-1680.
… Anne Dowriche's The French Historie (1589); Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (1621); and Elizabeth Cary's History of Edward II (composed c. 1627; published 1680). I explore the methods by which each of these writers creates an authoritative relationship with her readers even …