Author : Lady Mary Wroth
Release : 2011
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 515/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (abridged) by : Lady Mary Wroth
Download or read book The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (abridged) written by Lady Mary Wroth. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first romance written by an Englishwoman, Mary Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania is a literary tour de force in its own right. As the niece of Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Wroth was ideally situated as an observer and reporter of the social, literary, and political milieu of her time. This abridged modern-spelling edition, with a useful introduction and index of characters, makes this work newly accessible to general readers, students, and scholars.