Lady Mary Wroth

• References:
  • "Lady Mary Wroth" by Josephine A. Roberts, in Seventeenth-Century British Poets, ed. M. Thomas Hester, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol.121, Gale Research Inc, 1992.

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • bibliography for Mary Wroth

1. child, died age c.2 yrs.

author of prose romance Urania, the first ever long fiction work by an English woman, pub 1621,
the full title, The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, refers to Susan de Vere, wife of her 1st cousin the 1st Earl of Montgomery, future 4th Earl of Pembroke,
the title is in the style of her uncle's The countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, which was dedicated to her aunt,
at the end of Urania is the sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus,
she died c.1652, age c.65 yrs.

Come merry Spring delight us,
For Winter long did spight us,
In pleasure still persever,
Thy beauties ending never:
Spring, and grow
Lasting so,
With joyes increasing ever.

Let cold from hence be banish'd,
Till hopes from me be vanish'd,
But blesse thy daynties growing
In fulnesse freely flowing:
Sweet Birds sing
For the Spring,
All mirth is now bestowing.

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