Paul's Cross Churchyard, under the sign of the Gun, which was used by Grismand from 1618 to 1626. The work may have been sold at Grismand's shop in St. Urania was entered into the Stationers' Register on Jby John Marriott and John Grismand. This copy can be found at the University of Pennsylvania. Most of her corrections to the volume involve minor changes to spelling, or alterations to specific words or phrases, as seen here. One of Wroth's corrections in her copy of Urania, on signature 2M4v. After the publication of Urania, records of Wroth's life are sparse and largely occupied with her debt management, and she largely retreated from court and public life until her death in 1651 or 1653. Its manuscript is currently held by the Newberry Library. After 1621, Wroth wrote a second volume of Urania, which was never published during her lifetime. She also began writing her sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus during this period, and Wroth dispersed nineteen of its poems throughout the 1621 published edition of Urania.
Around this time, between 16, Wroth began composing the first volume of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania. Wroth figures Herbert in her work as the unfaithful Amphilanthus, with whom the constant Pamphilia, representing Wroth, is paired. James followed his father to the grave two years later on July 5, 1616, and Wroth was left to mourn and manage mounting debts.Įarly in her widowhood, Wroth bore two children, Katherine and William, to her cousin William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, with whom she had been involved for some time.
About a month before his death on March 14, 1614, Wroth gave birth to a son, James. She married Sir Robert Wroth (c.1576–1614) on September 27, 1604. Her uncle Sir Philip Sidney wrote the prose romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia and the sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella, and her aunt Mary Sidney was known for her poetic translations of the Psalms her father Robert also wrote poetry and circulated it in manuscript among family and friends. Lady Mary Wroth (neé Sidney) was born October 18, c.
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