Wilton House

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 w...