Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: the politics of withdrawal

Josephine Roberts' edition of the poems ofLady Mary Wroth has allowed the widespread dissemination of the sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, and has been instrumental in establishing Wroth as a primary example of the Renaissance woman poet. Coupled with the text of Wroth's poems is Roberts' history of the text's reception, a narrative of women's limited textual agency and constraint in the public sphere.