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&#;WROTH, Lady MARY (fl. ), author of ‘Urania,’ born about , was eldest daughter of Robert Sidney, first earl of Leicester [q. v.], by his first wife, Barbara, daughter of John Gamage. The great Sir Philip Sidney was her father's brother. On 27 Sept. Lady Mary married, at Penshurst, Sir Robert Wroth, eldest son of Sir Robert Wroth [q. v.] The bridegroom was about ten years his wife's senior. He had been knighted by King James a year before the marriage. On 27 Jan. –6, on his father's death, he succeeded to large property in Essex, including Loughton House and the estate of Durrants in the parish of Enfield. He was a keen sportsman, and the king occasionally visited him at Durrants for hunting. In Sir Robert was chosen sheriff of Essex. In February –14 Lady Mary bore him an only child, a son (James), and on 14 March following Sir Robert died at Loughton House. He was buried two days later in the church at Enfield. His will was proved on 3 June

Lady Mary was often at court after her marriage. On Twelfth-night –5 she acted at Whitehall in Ben Jonson's ‘Masque of Blackness.’ She came to know Jonson and the chief poets of the da

 

          Lady Mary Wroth was born Mary Sidney, on October 18, , into a family connected to the royal courts of Elizabeth I and James I. She was the daughter of Sir Robert Sidney, later Earl of Leicester, and Lady Barbara Gamage. She is best known as the first English woman to write a full-length prose romance and a sonnet sequence, departing from traditional "women's" genres such as epitaph and translation. Her work helped to open up the English literary world to women, and allowed female writers to move beyond pious subject matter (Beilin ).

          Like other girls of her day, Wroth did not attend school. But unlike most, she was taught at home by private tutors. Her mother was known as a patron of the arts, and in a previously unknown manuscript containing 66 poems written by her father was discovered. Wroth was also heavily influenced by her father's literary siblings. Her uncle, Sir Philip Sidney, was famous as a soldier, statesman and poet, and her aunt, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, both composed her own and revised and edited her brother's works.

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Lady Wroth with archlute. Unknown artist.
From the collection of Viscount De L'Isle.
        Lady Mary Wroth was the daughter of Robert Sidney, later Earl of Leicester, and the wealthy heiress Barbara Gamage, first cousin to Sir Walter Ralegh. Robert Sidney was himself a poet, and the younger brother of Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke. Because of her father's appointment as Governor of Flushing in the Netherlands in , Mary spent much of her early childhood at the house of Mary Sidney, Countess of Montgomery. When Elizabeth I died in , Robert Sidney was recalled to court by James I, who created him Earl of Leicester and made him one of his chief advisers and courtiers.
        In Mary was married to Sir Robert Wroth, a wealthy landowner in favor with James I. Although the marriage was not a happy one, Wroth's favor with the king brought Lady Mary into court circles. She even got a role in Queen Anne's first masque, Ben Jonson's Masque of Blackness, as Ethiopian nymph Baryte. She also appeared in Jonson's Masque of Beauty three years later. Lady M

Lady Mary Wroth was the first Englishwoman to write a complete sonnet sequence, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. She was also the first English woman to compose an extended work of romantic prose, The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania. Her life and writing were unconventional and controversial as she chose to voice her feminine viewpoint-a viewpoint which oftentimes opposed the patriarchal culture of the English Renaissance. Lady Wroth was born in , joining the aristocratic and famous literary family of the Sidneys. Her father, Sir Robert Sidney, was a poet and statesman; her uncle, Sir Philip Sidney, authored Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, and The Defence of Poesy; and her aunt, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was a well known patron of the arts who wrote, translated, and published her poetry during an era when few women were brave enough to do so. Although her remarkable literary heritage may have inspired Lady Mary to write, it was her uniquely creative spirit that enabled her to express her feminine beliefs as she navigated herself and her art across the Renaissance gender barriers.

Lady Mary spent a happy childhood growing up at Penshurst, the family estate. She was

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