Margaret P. Hannay

Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317100065
• Artikelnr.: 45093178

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Chronology
Lady Mary Wroth's Family Alliances
Sidney Family Tree
Wroth Family Tree
Prologue: The Sidney Porcupine and the Gamage Griffin
1 "Little Mall" (1587-94)
2 "A Fit Maid for the Queen" (1595-1603)
3 "Lady Worth" (1604)
4 "So Brave a Mind" (1605-13)
5 "Nature's Index" (1614-20)
6 "Art's Sweet Lover" (1621-30)
7 "The Honorable Lady Wroth" (1630-51)
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index