Overview
Two women. Two centuries. One remarkable story.
Deep in the archives of Wilton House, the ancestral home of the Earl of Pembroke, a young scholar makes a discovery that could define her career: literary fragments written by seventeenth-century noblewoman Lady Mary Wroth, niece of the famed Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney. Against her mentor’ s advice to focus on the male canon, she embarks on the thrilling task of piecing together Mary’ s story— a woman who defied societal dictates that women remain “ chaste, silent, and obedient.”
Through heartbreak, family tragedy, scandal, and the constraints of her time, Mary fought to tell her story and shape her own destiny. As the scholar edits these fragments, her own journey unfolds in footnotes and commentary, revealing a parallel path toward independence, courage, and self-confidence.
Wilton House is a layered, lyrical exploration of female voices across the centuries— a tale of resilience, intellect, and the enduring quest for freedom in a world that too often silences women.
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