Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: A Re-Appraisal

by Ilona Bell

In this first full-length study of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, the first sonnet sequence to be written and published by an English woman, Ilona Bell shows that Mary Wroth is a boldly original lyric poet. Bell compares the handwritten private manuscript to the printed text, and shows how Wroth refashioned herself to conceal an earlier, more transgressive, private poetic persona. By exploring interpretive clues provided by Wroth's romance Urania, Bell...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754666891
• ISBN13: 9780754666899
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages