A Woman to Know: Lady Mary Wroth
My hopes in love are dead. — Mary
The amazing thing about Lady Mary Wroth is that she wrote all this incredibly moving love poetry in an era when many women didn't even write shopping lists. In 1599 she became the first Englishwoman to publish a complete sonnet sequence, 16,000-plus words long, starring two female heroines and their wonderfully tight fr…
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