Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth

In this first full-length biography of Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret Hannay's reliance on primary sources results in some corrections, as well as additions, to our knowledge of the lives of Wroth and of her children. The narrative is enhanced with a chronology; family trees of the Sidneys and the Wroths; a map of Essex, showing places where Wroth lived; a chart of family alliances; portraits; and illustrations from her manuscripts.

Author: Margaret P. Hannay
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/13/2010
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780754660538

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 294

About the Author
Margaret P. Hannay, Professor of English at Siena College, is the author of Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth and Philip's Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, editor of Silent but for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works, and editor, with Susanne Woods, of Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. With Noel J. Kinnamon and Michael G. Brennan, she has edited The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; Selected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; Domestic Politics and Family Absence: The Correspondence (1588-1621) of Robert Sidney, First Earl of Leicester, and Barbara Gamage Sidney, Countess of Leicester; and The Correspondence of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester.