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2 unusual facts about Lady Mary Wroth


Lady Mary Wroth

Penshurst Place was one of the great country houses in the Elizabethan and Jacobean period.

Her father was first earl of Leicester and Viscount Lisle of Penshurst Place, a poet and governor of Flushing, Netherlands.


Female epic

The breadth of these studies is indicated by the essays in Bernard Schweizer's Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982 (2006), which features studies of, among others, Lady Mary Wroth’s The Countesse of Montgomeries Urania, Mary Tighe’s Psyche, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh, Sharon Doubiago’s Hard Country, and Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.


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