Basic Reading
 
"Basic Reading" is just that -- it includes the essential primary texts, and some suggested secondary
reading which can provide an introduction to Wroth and her writing.
A more detailed list of publications regarding Wroth can be found in the Complete Bibliography.
Primary Texts
Wroth, Lady Mary,
The First Part of The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, ed.
Josephine A. Roberts, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 140/
Renaissance English Text Society, 17 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval and
Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1995)
- -- The Second Part of The Countess
of Montgomery's Urania, ed.Josephine A. Roberts, completed by Suzanne Gossett and Janel
Mueller. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 211/ Renaissance
English Text Society, 24 (Tempe, Arizona: Renaissance English Text
Society in conjunction with Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, 1999)
- -- Lady Mary Wroth’s Love’s
Victory: The Penshurst
Manuscript, ed. Michael G. Brennan (London: The Roxburghe Club,
1988)
- -- The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth,
ed. Josephine A. Roberts, 2nd edition (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1992)
Secondary Texts
- Beilin, Elaine, Redeeming
Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1987)
- Lamb, Mary Ellen, Gender
and Authorship in the Sidney Circle (Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1990)
- Haselkorn, Anne M., and Betty S.
Travitsky, eds, The
Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon (Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1990)
- Miller, Naomi J., and Gary
Waller, eds, Reading Mary
Wroth: Representing Alternatives in Early Modern England (Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1991)
- Paulissen, May Nelson, The
Love Sonnets of Lady Mary Wroth: A
Critical Introduction, Salzburg Studies in English Literature,
Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies, 104 (Salzburg: Institut für
Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1982)
- Quilligan, Maureen, ‘Lady
Mary Wroth: Female
Authority and the Family Romance’, in Unfolded
Tales: Essays on
Renaissance Romance, ed. George M. Logan and Gordon Teskey (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1989), pp. 257-80
- Salzman, Paul, English
Prose Fiction, 1558-1700: A
Critical History (Oxford: O.U.P., 1985)
- Wall, Wendy, The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English
Renaissance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993)
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Waller, Gary F.,
The Sidney Family Romance: Mary
Wroth, William Herbert, and the Early Modern Construction of Gender
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993)
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