 |  | | | Sonnets | Friday 17 January 2003 | | |
Lady Mary Wroth was born in 1587 and enjoyed a privileged life within the court of James I, until she eventually retreated to her country estate following the scandal that surrounded an affair with her cousin, William Herbert.
Like Wroth's famous uncle, Sir Philip Sidney, she composed poetry and was the first woman to write a sonnet sequence in English.
Janet Todd, Professor of English at the University of Glasgow, and Isobel Armstrong, Professor of English at Birkbeck College, have been re-reading one of her sonnets from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, 'My heart is lost. What can I now expect?'.
Lady Mary Wroth's sonnet can be found in 'The Oxford Book of Sonnets' edited by John Fuller, published by Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0192142674
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