iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Best. Present. Ever.

Necklace charm, open book that reads, "Wilton House A novel of Mary Wroth by Kay Daly

191

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

How I'm spending my Friday night @realwroth.bsky.social

Slide from a class presentation deck title "Lord Pembroke & the Ladies" with the quote "immoderately given up to women" by Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon under it. Picture of Lord Pembroke on the left with a large speech bubble reading "Ladies..." in florid font. upper right is a very large picture of Lady Mary Herbert, with the caption "Mother," and four hearts with pictures of Mary Fitton, mistress, Lady Mary Wroth Mistress, Lady Mary Talbot, wife, and Lady Christiana Cavendish, Mistress.

041

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Marie de France, Edmund Spenser, Mary Wroth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Hill, & Carol Ann Duffy.

261

Lady Mary Wroth @realwroth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I have a joke about Petrarch, but it runs hot and cold.

001

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

14 Mar 1614: d. Robert Wroth, husband of Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth #writer of gangrene #otd leaving her deep in debt

051

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Psssst. New website redesign... www.kaydalywriter.com #booksky 💙📚 #historicalfiction #histfic #books #amreading #ampublishing #writerlife

Home page of website for Kay Daly, writer, featuring upcoming novel on the life of Lady Mary Wroth, titled Wilton House, coming April 13, 2027. Includes image of Wilton House in Wiltshire England, part of the book cover design (which shows the words "Wilton House" set against part of a woman clad in Renaissance-era clothes) and a review quote from Rebecca Makkai -“A layered literary journey in the mode of A. S. Byatt, with the researched detail of Hilary Mantel…”

0152

Lady Mary Wroth @realwroth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

THIS IS AN ABOMINATION. And she didn't even tag me. #ladymarywroth

030

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Saint Barbara, 1522. Gorgeous work by the teen-aged (!) Parmigianino, who was born on this day in 1503.

310815

Lady Mary Wroth @realwroth.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

In my day, we called it "saucy."

000

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 04/10/2025

The best writing tip, the only one you should follow, is to ensure that you have all your material conditions taken care--sleep, a good income, healthy snacks, a working democracy, enough affluence to shield you from the horrors of the world--to maximize your creativity.

3212

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

This Day (A History Podcast) @thisdaypod.com · 26/09/2025

Announcing a good ol’ fashioned Teach-In in Washington, DC on Sunday, October 26th. We’ll convene for a series of lectures, stories, and conversations to celebrate and stand up for the work of history and museums. Shoutout to @natedimeo.bsky.social for bringing this idea to us. See you in DC!

A poster announcing a teach-in in washington DC.

Sunday, October 26th - Sunup to Sundown
Washington, DC - The National Mall
“AMERICA’S FRONT YARD”

FEATURING KELLIE CARTER JACKSON, NICOLE HEMMER, DEREK MUSGROVE, NATE DIMEO, TRESSIE MCMILLAN COTTOM, AMANDA SEALES, JODY AVIRGAN, JAMES FALLOWS, MARTHA JONES, MARCIA CHATELAIN, PAUL BUTLER, NATHAN CONNOLLY, AND MORE

8602240

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 02/10/2025

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

3937491446

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Medieval Troubadours and Bards would have loved Taylor Swift.

021

Lady Mary Wroth @realwroth.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Please, I beg of you, do NOT donate to this feeble attempt to garner money to support marketing costs for this ABOMINATION. I haven't read it, but I'm sure it's full of lies and a cheap attempt to gain notoriety off my back. ONLY I MAY GAIN NOTORIETY OFF THE BACKS OF OTHERS!!!!

031

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 24/07/2025

The Oxford comma (also known as the ‘serial comma’) is the comma that separates the second to last item in a list from a final item that is introduced by ‘and’ or ‘or.’ It is optional...but be aware that not using the serial comma can result in some ambiguity.

49823100

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I always see folks posting the "Hell is empty, and all the devils are here" quote, but what about "I coupled with your mate at barley-break; now we are left in hell," you cowards.

051

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

with thee I best doe love Mary Wroth

Sonnet 37

by Mary Sidney Wroth, Countess of Montgomery c.
Night, welcome art thou to my mind destrest
Darke, heavy, sad, yett nott more sad then I
Never could'st thou find fitter company
For thine owne humor then I thus oprest.

If thou beest dark, my wrongs still unredrest
Saw never light, nor smalest bliss can spy;
If heavy, joy from mee too fast doth hy
And care outgoes my hope of quiett rest,

Then now in friendship joine with haples mee,
Who ame as sad, and dark as thou canst bee
Hating all pleasure, or delight of lyfe;

Silence, and griefe, with thee I best doe love
And from you three, I know I can nott move,
Then lett us live companions without strife.

091

Lady Mary Wroth @realwroth.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

010

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I was stunned to hear of the passing of Dr. Mary Beth Rose. She was a mentor to me at NU, and introduced me to Lady Mary Wroth (the subject of my novel) plus a ton of other remarkable #earlymodern women writers. She was a wonderfully curious, knowledgeable, generous, and supportive person.

legacy.com

Mary Beth Rose Obituary (1948 - 2024) - Legacy Remembers

View Mary Beth Rose's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

2204

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

🎉 Int'l Women's Day is 8 March & SEL is celebrating scholarship on gender, women's history, and women's literature across 400 years. Recent issues feature feminist bibliography, portrayal of maternal bodies & female erotics, analysis of feminine duty & women's experiences @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Celebrating women's history month graphic featuring article on early modern feminist bibliography and Penelope Rich

screenshot and quotation from SEL article on portrayals of the maternal body and female erotic experience in Mary Wroth

screenshot and quotation from SEL article on feminine duty and ethics in Frances Sheridan's Sidney Bidulph novels

screenshot and quotation from SEL article on women's experience and the fallen woman archetype in Reynolds's novel Rosa Lambert

062

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 07/04/2025

Poem of the week: A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth by Ben Jonson www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... Ben Jonson at PG www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #poetry #authors #literature #books

Erato, Muse of Lyrical Poetry by Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832). "Erato is the muse of lyric poetry in Greek mythology. She is often depicted holding a small kithara or lyre, a stringed musical instrument, here seen resting against a tree in the lower left. She is writing with an arrow given to her by a winged Eros or Cupid, the god of love. This painting belongs to a cycle of five works commissioned by businessman François Boyer-Fonfréde for his home in Toulouse."

193

Lady Mary Wroth @realwroth.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Okay, well, that it is accurate.

020

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🚨🚨🚨 DON'T MISS OUT!!! A few spots remain for "RENAISSANCE RENEGADES" - online from Newberry Library! ✒️Queer poets! ✍️Women writers! 🏳️‍🌈Gender nonconformers! 👷Working class social climbers! www.newberry.org/calendar/ren...

125

Lady Mary Wroth @realwroth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Someone thinks she's clever. As much as I appreciate the effort, I do NOT appreciate the exploitation of my image. Do not take this class.

020

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Dog on the table, looking v. happy, as who wouldn't with A+ Chinese cup and not 1 but 2 biscuits! Painted in the 1640s by Giovanna Garzoni. It's her day.

317028

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Ethiopian prince Zaga Christ, portrayed in miniature in 1635 by Giovanna Garzoni. He'd come to Europe seeking help for his claims to the throne. Ended up with an A+ portrait.

720124

Reposted by Lady Mary Wroth

Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

🐌Happy #NationalSnailDay everyone! Two snail based events coming up next month - a chat about snail fighter extraordinary Thersites free to catch online, and a staging of the play Thersites at an in person show. Details below - but till then, here's one we prepared earlier! youtu.be/vqAgXc1_6jM?...

youtu.be

Thersites | Second Look Performance (Beyond Shakespeare Exploring Session)

YouTube video by Beyond Shakespeare

132

Lady Mary Wroth @realwroth.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Please. Do NOT take this course, and do NOT recommend it to your friends. I understand it is to be taught by a woman who trades in exploiting the likeness of me & @benjonson.bsky.social - and also holds me alongside -- as if EQUAL TO (AS IF) -- the likes of MOLL CUTPURSE!! I WILL SUE! #EARLYMODERN

020

Lady Mary Wroth @realwroth.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Shocked! Shocked, I tell you. (tho i do like the limelight)

030