Strange Labyrinth: The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania

Anonymous Patron writes “The U of Penn Gazette Has This feature on “The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania.” Published in 1621, they say the Urania fascinates on several levels. True, it’s a long, hard slog: more than 1,000 pages of convoluted plot and rococo prose; more than 300 incestuously entwined characters. But it is the earliest prose romance—novel, if you will—written by a woman in the English language, and a serious work of literature from a time when women were expected to stay away from such things.
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March 5, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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