1 Mary Wroth, The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, ed. Josephine A. Roberts (Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995), 317. All citations will be from this edition.

² Meredith Skura, Tudor Autobiography: Listening for Inwardness (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 27.

³ Margaret Hannay, Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth (Burlington: Ashgate, 2010), 235–7.

⁴ John Chamberlain, Letters, ed. Norman E. McClure (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1939), II: 427.

⁵ Clare R. Kinney, ed., Ashgate Critical Studies on Women Writers in England, 1550–1700. Vol. 4: Mary Wroth (Burlington: Ashgate, 2009); Paul Salzman, ‘Mary Wroth: From Obscurity to Canonization’, in Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 60–89; Barbara Zimbalist, ‘Critical Perspectives on Lady Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania: An Annotated Bibliography’, Sidney Journal, 24.1 (2006): 45–74; Sheila Cavanagh, Cherished Torment (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2007); Naomi Miller, Changing the Subject (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1996); ‘Mary Wroth’, Longman Anthology of British Literature, Vol. Ib: The Early Modern Period, ed. Constance Jordan and Clare Carroll (New York: Longman, 2002), 1668.

⁶ Mary Wroth, The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, ed. Josephine A. Roberts, completed by Suzanne Gossett and Janel Mueller (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies [ACMRS], 1999). All citations will be taken from this edition.

⁷ Kinney, ‘Introduction’, Ashgate Critical Studies.

⁸ Sir Edward Denny, quoted in Hannay, Mary Sidney, 240.

⁹ Helen Hackett, Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 9–16.

¹⁰ Hackett, Women and Romance Fiction, 163; Roberts, ‘Commentary’, in Mary Wroth, First Part, lxxi–lxxv, lxxxvi–lxxxix; Jennifer Lee Carrell, ‘A Pack of Lies in a Looking Glass: Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania and the Magic Mirror of Romance’, Studies in English Literature, 34.1 (1994): 79–107; Hannay, Mary Sidney, 194–6; Johanna Rickman, Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England (Burlington: Ashgate, 2008), 155–8; Maureen Quilligan, Incest and Agency in Elizabeth’s England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), 206–7; Elizabeth Mazzola, Favorite Sons: The Politics and Poetics of the Sidney Family (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 77–8; Mary Ellen Lamb, ‘Biopolitics of Romance in Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania’, English Literary Renaissance, 31 (2001): 107–30; Marion Wynne-Davies, ‘“So much worth”: Autobiographical Narratives in the Work of Lady Mary Wroth’, in Henk Dragstra, Sheila Ottway, and Helen Wilcox, eds., Betraying Our Selves: Forms of Self-Representation in Early Modern English Texts (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 76–93; Louise Schleiner, Tudor and Stuart Women Writers (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), 150–74; Gary Waller, The Sidney Family Romance (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993), 253–66; Mary Ellen Lamb, ‘Introduction’, in Mary Wroth, The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania (Abridged) (Tempe: ACMRS, 2011).

¹¹ Carrell, ‘A Pack of Lies’.

¹² Hannay, Mary Sidney, xii, 234.

¹³ Leah Marcus, ‘Towards a New Topicality’, in Puzzling Shakespeare (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988), 37.

¹⁴ Barbara Lewalski, Writing Women in Jacobean England (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), 249.

¹⁵ Hannay, Mary Sidney; Josephine A. Roberts, ‘Life of Mary Wroth’, in Poems of Lady Mary Wroth (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983), 3–40; Mary Ellen Lamb, ‘Wroth, Mary’, ODNB <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30082> accessed 18 March 2013.

¹⁶ Ben Jonson, ‘Conversations with Drummond’, in Works, ed. C. H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947), I: 142.

¹⁷ Hannay, Mary Sidney, 295.

¹⁸ Hannay, Mary Sidney; Victor Stater, ‘Herbert, William’, ODNB <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13058?docPos=9> accessed 18 March 2013; Waller, Sidney Family Romance, 53–92.

¹⁹ Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, ed. W. Dunn Macray (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888), I: 72; Hannay, Mary Sidney, 97.

²⁰ Josephine A. Roberts, ‘“The Knott Never To Be Untied”: The Controversy Regarding Marriage in Mary Wroth’s Urania’, in Naomi Miller and Gary Waller, eds., Reading Mary Wroth (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991), 109–32 (123).

²¹ Hannay, Mary Sidney, 94.

²² Carrell, ‘A Pack of Lies’, 94.

²³ Arthur Marotti, ‘“Love Is Not Love”: Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences and the Social Order’, English Literary History, 49 (1982): 396–428.

²⁴ Ilona Bell, Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 13.

²⁵ Stephen Orgel, Illusion of Power (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975), 38.

²⁶ Tim Bishop, ‘“The Gingerbread Host”’, in David Bevington and Peter Holbrook, eds., Politics of the Stuart Court Masque (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 96.

²⁷ Ben Jonson, ‘Masque of Queens’, in Complete Masques, ed. Stephen Orgel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969), 123.

²⁸ Julie Campbell, ‘Masque Scenery and the Tradition of Immobilization in the First Part of the Countess of Montgomery’s Urania’, Renaissance Studies, 22.2 (2008): 221–39 (232).

²⁹ Campbell, ‘Masque Scenery’, 233.

³⁰ Mary Wroth, Poems of Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983), 85.

³¹ Hannay, Mary Sidney, 187.

³² Campbell, ‘Masque Scenery’.

³³ Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), 18; Roberts, ‘Commentary’, in First Part, 723.

³⁴ Roberts, ‘Commentary’, in First Part, xviii–xxxix; Jacqueline Miller, ‘Lady Mary Wroth in the House of Busirane’, in Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman, eds., Worldmaking Spenser (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000), 115–24.

³⁵ A Critical Edition of Yong’s Translation of George of Montemayor’s Diana and Gil Polo’s Enamoured Diana, ed. Judith M. Kennedy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968); Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, trans. Sir John Harington, ed. Robert McNulty (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972); Roberts, ‘Commentary’, in First Part, xxvi–xxviii.

³⁶ Wroth, Second Part, 61, 424 n. 61.15.

³⁷ Mary Ellen Lamb, ‘Topicality and the Interrogation of Wonder in Mary Wroth’s Second Part of The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania’, in James Dutcher and Anne Prescott, eds., Renaissance Historicisms (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008), 258 n. 20.

³⁸ Clare R. Kinney, ‘“Beleeve this butt a fiction”: Female Authorship, Narrative Undoing, and the Limits of Romance in The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery’s Urania’, Spenser Studies, 17 (2003): 239–50 (245); Cavanagh, Cherished Torment, 195–218.

³⁹ Roberts, ‘Commentary’, xviii and lxvii; Mueller and Gossett, ‘Textual Introduction’, xxii–xxiii; Hackett, Women and Romance Fiction, 165–6; Lewalski, Writing Women, 289, 408 n. 99; Lamb, ‘Biopolitics’, 121–30.