Bibliography
Editions
 

Wroth, Lady Mary. The Countesse of Montgomeries Urania. London: Printed for John Marriott and
        John Grismond, 1621.

---. The Countesse of Montgomeries Urania. Ed. Josephine A. Roberts. (Forthcoming?)

---. Lady Mary Wroth's Love's Victory. Ed. Michael G. Brennan. London: The Roxburghe Club,
        1988.

---. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. Ed. Gary Waller. Salzburg: Universitat Salzburg, 1977.

---. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth. Ed. Josephine A. Roberts. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
        University Press, 1983.


Critical Studies

Beilin, Elaine V. "'The Onely Perfect Vertue': Constancy in Mary Wroth's 'Pamphilia to
        Amphilanthus.'" Spenser-Studies 2 (1981): 229-245.

---. Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1987.

Carrell, Jennifer-Lee. "A Pack of Lies in a Looking Glass: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the
        Magic Mirror of Romance." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 34 (1994):
        79-107.

Dubrow, Heather. Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses. Ithaca: Cornell
        UP, 1995.

Fienberg, Nona. "Mary Wroth and the Invention of Female Poetic Subjectivity." Naomi J. Miller and
        Gary Waller eds. Reading Mary Wroth: Representing Alternatives in Early Modern England.
        Knoxville : U of Tennessee P, 1991. 175-90.

Hackett, Helen. "'Yet Tell Me Some Such Fiction': Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the 'Femininity'
        of Romance." Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760. Ed. Clare Brant and Diane Purkiss.
        London: Routledge, 1992. 39-68.

Hall, Kim F. "'I Rather Would Wish to be a Black-Moor'': Beauty, Race, and Rank in Lady Mary
        Wroth's Urania." Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker eds. Women, 'Race,' and Writing
        in the Early Modern Period. London : Routledge, 1994.

Hannay, Margaret Patterson "Mary Sidney: Lady Wroth." Katharina M. Wilson ed. Women Writers
        of the Renaissance and Reformation. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1987.

---. "'Your Vertuous and Learned Aunt': The Countess of Pembroke as a Mentor to Mary Wroth."
        Naomi J. Miller and Gary Waller eds. Reading Mary Wroth: Representing Alternatives in Early
        Modern England. Knoxville : U of Tennessee P, 1991. 16-34.

Hanson, Ellis. "Sodomy and Kingcraft in Urania and Antony and Cleopatra." Claude J. Summers ed.
        Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in
        Historical Context. New York: Harrington Park, 1992. 135-51.

Jones, Ann Rosalind. "Designing Women: The Self as Spectacle in Mary Wroth and Veronica
        Franco." Naomi J. Miller and Gary Waller eds. Reading Mary Wroth: Representing
        Alternatives in Early Modern England. Knoxville : U of Tennessee P, 1991. 135-53.

Krontiris, Tina. Oppositional Voices: Women as Writers and Translators of Literature in the English
        Renaissance. London: Routledge, 1992.

Lamb, Mary Ellen. "Women Readers in Mary Wroth's Urania." Naomi J. Miller and Gary Waller
        eds. Reading Mary Wroth: Representing Alternatives in Early Modern England. Knoxville:
        U of Tennessee P, 1991. 120-27 .

---. Gender and Authorship in the Sidney Circle. Madison : U of Wisconsin P, 1990.

Lewalski,-Barbara-K "Mary Wroth's Love's Victory and Pastoral Tragicomedy." Naomi J. Miller
        and Gary Waller eds. Reading Mary Wroth: Representing Alternatives in Early Modern
        England. Knoxville : U of Tennessee P, 1991. 88-108.

MacArthur, Janet. "'A Sydney, Though Unnamed': Lady Mary Wroth and Her Poetical
        Progenitors." English-Studies-in-Canada 15 (1989): 12-20.

Masten, Jeff. "'Shall I Turne Blabb?': Circulation, Gender, and Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's
        Sonnets." Naomi J. Miller and Gary Waller eds. Reading Mary Wroth: Representing
        Alternatives in Early Modern England. Knoxville : U of Tennessee P, 1991. 67-87.

McLaren, Margaret Anne. "An Unknown Continent: Lady Mary Wroth's Forgotten Pastoral Drama
        'Loves Victorie.'" 276-294.

Miller, Naomi-J. Changing the Subject: Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender in Early Modern
        England. Lexington : UP of Kentucky, 1996.

---. "Engendering Discourse: Women's Voices in Wroth's Urania and Shakespeare's Plays." Naomi
        J. Miller and Gary Waller eds. Reading Mary Wroth: Representing Alternatives in Early
        Modern England. Knoxville : U of Tennessee P, 1991. 154-72.

---. "'Not Much to Be Marked': Narrative of the Woman's Part in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania."
        SEL: Studies-in-English-Literature, 1500-1900 29 (1989): 121-137.

---. "Rewriting Lyric Fictions: The Role of the Lady in Lady Mary Wroth's "Pamphilia to
        Amphilanthus"." Anne M. Haselkorn and Betty S. Travitsky eds. The Renaissance
        Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon. Amherst : U of Massachusetts P, 1990.
        295-310.

Paulissen, May Nelson. The Love Sonnets of Lady Mary Wroth: A Critical Introduction. Salzburg:
        Inst.fur Anglistik & Amerikanistik, Univ. Salzburg, 1982.

Pigeon, Renee. "Manuscript Notations in an Unrecorded Copy of Lady Mary Wroth's The
        Countess of Mountgomeries Urania (1621)." Notes-and-Queries 38:1 (1991): 81-82.

Pritchard, R.E. "George Herbert and Lady Mary Wroth: A Root for 'The Flower'?"
        Review-of-English-Studies 47 (1996): 386-89.

Quilligan,-Maureen. "The Constant Subject: Instability and Female Authority in Wroth's Urania
        Poems." Elizabeth Harvey and Katharine-Eisaman Maus eds.. Soliciting Interpretation:
        Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.
        307-35.

---. "Feminine Endings: The Sexual Politics of Sidney's and Spenser's Rhyming." Anne M. Haselkorn
        and Betty S. Travitsky eds. The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print:Counterbalancing the
        Canon. Amherst : U of Massachusetts P, 1990. 311-326.

---. "Lady Mary Wroth: Female Authority and the Family Romance." George M. Logan and
        Gordon Teskey eds. Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance. Ithaca: Cornell UP,
        1989. 257-280.

Roberts, Josephine A. "The Biographical Problem of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus." Tulsa Studies in
        Women's Literature 1 (1982): 43-53.

---. "The Huntington Manuscript of Lady Mary Wroth's Play, Loves Victorie." Huntington Library
        Quarterly 46 (1983): 156-174.

---. "'The Knott Never to Bee Untide': The Controversy Regarding Marriage in Mary Wroth's
        Urania." Naomi J. Miller and Gary Waller eds. Reading Mary Wroth: Representing
        Alternatives in Early Modern England. Knoxville : U of Tennessee P, 1991. 109-32.

---. "Labyrinths of Desire: Lady Mary Wroth's Reconstruction of Romance." Women's-Studies 19
        (1991): 183-92.

---. "Lady Mary Wroth's Urania: A Response to Jacobean Censorship." W. Speed Hill ed. New
        Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance Text Society, 1985-1991.
        Binghamton, NY : Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993.

---. "Radigund Revisited: Perspectives on Women Rulers in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania." Anne M.
        Haselkorn and Betty S. Travitsky eds. The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print:
        Counterbalancing the Canon. Amherst : U of Massachusetts P, 1990. 187-207 .

Shapiro, Michael. "Lady Mary Wroth Describes a 'Boy Actress.'" Medieval and Renaissance
        Drama in England 4 (1989): 187-194.

Shaver, Anne. "A New Woman of Romance." Modern-Language-Studies 21 (1991): 63-77.

Swift, Carolyn Ruth. "Feminine Identity in Lady Mary Wroth's Romance Urania." English Literary
        Renaissance 14 (1984): 328-346.

---. "Feminine Self-Definition in Lady Mary Wroth's Love's Victorie (c. 1621)." English Literary
        Renaissance 19 (1989): 171-188.

Walker, Kim. Women Writers of the English Renaissance. New York: Twayne-Simon and Schuster
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Wall, Wendy. The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance. Ithaca:
        Cornell UP, 1993.

Waller, Gary. "Mary Wroth and the Sidney Family Romance: Gender Construction in Early Modern
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        Alternatives in Early Modern England. Knoxville : U of Tennessee P, 1991. 35-63.

---. "Mother/Son, Father/Daughter, Brother/Sister, Cousins: The Sidney Family Romance." Modern
        Philology 88 (1991): 401-14.

---. The Sidney Family Romance: Mary Wroth, William Herbert, and the Early Modern
        Construction of Gender. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1993.

---. "Struggling into Discourse: The Emergence of Renaissance Women's Writing."

Margaret P. Hannay ed. Silent but for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and
        Writers of Religious Works. Kent Ohio: Kent State UP, 1985. 238-256.

Weidemann, Heather L. "Theatricality and Female Identity in Mary Wroth's Urania ." Naomi J.
        Miller and Gary Waller eds. Reading Mary Wroth: Representing Alternatives in Early Modern
        England. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1991. 191-209.

Wynne-Davies, Marion. "The Queen's Masque: Renaissance Women and the Seventeenth-Century
        Court Masque." S.P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies eds.. Gloriana's Face: Women,
        Public and Private, in the English Renaissance. Detroit : Wayne State UP, 1992. 79-104.


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