Photo of the historical great house in Wiltshire, Wilton House. An impressive four story tower with bell tower on top at center with large oak door, flanked by 2 building wings. Built of pale stone and fronted by a sprawling lawn.

Coming April 13, 2027

“A layered literary journey in the mode of A. S. Byatt, with the researched detail of Hilary Mantel…”
— Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers and I Have Some Questions for You

About Wilton House

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”…

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The historical Lady Mary Wroth