CRITICISM

Andrea, Bernadette. “Pamphilia's Cabinet: Gendered Authorship and Empire in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania.” ELH 68, No. 2 (Summer 2001): 335-58.

Explores the metaphorical cabinet in Urania as the site of both sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women writers' enforced silence and their implicit involvement in European colonialism.

Kuin, Roger. “More I Still Undoe: Louise Labé, Mary Wroth, and the Petrarchan Discourse.” Comparative Literature Studies 36, No. 2 (1999): 146-61.

Discusses the ways in which Wroth and the earlier Renaissance poet Labé successfully “invaded” the male Petrarchan poetic discourse normally unavailable to women.

Moore, Mary. “The Labyrinth as Style in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 38, No. 1 (Winter 1998): 109-25.

Argues that Wroth uses in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus form and syntax that echo the structure of labyrinths.

Quilligan, Maureen. “Completing the Conversation.” Shakespeare Studies 25 (1997): 42-49.

Situates Wroth within the local historical realm of the English Renaissance metaphysical poet John Donne to examine similarities in their respective poetic, philosophical, and personal reactions to gender-focused social institutions.

Quilligan, Maureen. “The Constant Subject: Instability and Female Authority in Wroth's Urania Poems.” In Soliciting Interpretations: Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry, edited by Elizabeth D. Harvey and Katharine Eisaman Maus, 307-35. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Examines the role of Wroth’s family relationship to Sir Philip Sidney in the development of her confidence to write and publish as a female poet in the late Renaissance.

Additional coverage of Wroth's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 121 and Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Vol. 30.