* The Countess of Montgomery's Urania ( 1621 ) by Mary Wroth is considered to contain significant autobiographical elements.

Mary Wroth ’ s alleged relationship with William Herbert and her children born from that union are referenced in her work, The Countess of Montgomery ’ s Urania.

Urania was the first known piece of original fiction by an English woman and reflected Wroth ’ s experience as an eyewitness to the Jacobean court.

After the publication issues surrounding Urania, Wroth left King James's court and was later abandoned by William Herbert.

Urania is the titular character of the work, but is not the character that represents Wroth in the work.

Wroth did not fare as well as her fictional character did when Urania was published.

Paul Salzman, in " The Review of English Studies " article, " Contemporary References in Wroth ’ s Urania " notes that this work was full of references to others.

In the article "' Not much to be marked ': Narrative of the Woman's Part in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania " by Naomi Miller published in the journal " Studies in English Literature ," the author relates that Wroth ’ s novel was the first work of fiction written by an English woman to be published in the Renaissance Virginia Woolf correctly claimed that any woman who composed a work of fiction would be " thought a monster " to compose and publish any significant work of fiction during the period of the Renaissance.

"' Not much to be marked ': Narrative of the Woman's Part in Lady Mary Wroth ' Urania.

" Contemporary References in Wroth ’ s Urania " The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol.

Drusilla was a daughter of King Ptolemy of Mauretania and Queen Julia Urania of Mauretania.

Drusilla was an only child to Claudius ’ late maternal cousin King Ptolemy of Mauretania and his wife Queen of Mauretania Julia Urania.

Uzzā was worshipped by the Nabataeans, who equated her with the Graeco-Roman goddesses Aphrodite, Urania, Venus and Caelestis.

The gravestone of Urania of Worms, who died in 1275, contains the inscription " who sang piyyutim for the women with musical voice.

In Athens, Aphrodite, who had an earlier, pre-Olympic existence, was called Aphrodite Urania the ' eldest of the Fates ' according to Pausanias ( x. 24. 4 ).

Urania was established in the late 1890s by lumbering magnate Henry E. Hardtner, who is considered " Louisiana's first conservationist.

Pausanias, the legal expert of the group, begins by taking Phaedrus up on his chosen examples ( 180c ), asserting that the love that deserves attention is not the kind associated with Aphrodite Pandemos ( Aphrodite common to the whole city ) whose object may equally be a woman or a boy, but that of Aphrodite Urania ( Heavenly Aphrodite ), which " springs entirely from the male " and is " free from wantonness "; the object of this kind of love is not a child, but one who has begun to display intelligence and is close to growing a beard ( 181e ).

One of her earliest was to establish, with the novelist Charles Dickens, Urania Cottage, a home that helped young women who had " turned to a life of immorality " including theft and prostitution.

Metamorpho briefly had a crimefighting partner: a woman named Urania " Rainie " Blackwell who deliberately exposed herself to the Orb and gained its powers, calling herself Element Girl.

Bernadette Andrea, a literary critic who focuses on gender themes in Urania in her work " Pamphilia's Cabinet: Gendered Authorship and Empire in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania ", writes that female virtues at the time were seen to be silence and obedience.

He calls on Urania to mourn for Keats who died in Rome ( sts.

The allusion is to Urania, the goddess of astronomy, and to the goddess Venus, who is also known as Venus Urania.

It was named after the Muse Urania who represents Astronomy.

In 1994 Urania published the first novel by now-world-famed Valerio Evangelisti, who had won the Premio Urania for that year with Nicholas Eymerich, inquisitore.

Other outstanding cover artists who worked for Urania were Vicente Segrelles from Spain ( 1988 – 1991 ) and Oscar Chichoni from Argentina ( 1990s ).

The older, Urania, is the daughter of Uranus, and inspires homosexual male ( and more specifically, ephebic ) love / eros ; the younger is named Pandemos, the daughter of Zeus and Dione, and all love for women comes from her.

Before he could commit the act, Urania had killed him with her ceremonial knife.

Eldest of the divine sisters Urania inherited Zeus ' majesty and power and the beauty and grace of her mother.

Urania dresses in a cloak embroidered with stars and keeps her eyes and attention focused on the Heavens.

: Urania, o ' er her star-bespangled lyre,

Spenser dedicated his Ruines of Time to her, and refers to her as " Urania " in Colin Clout's come home againe ; in Spenser's Astrophel she is " Clorinda ".

Lady Mary was an author of considerable repute in her own right, and her book Urania is generally regarded as the first full-length English novel by a woman.

However, her period of notoriety was brief after the scandal aroused by these allusions in her romance ; Urania was withdrawn from sale by December of 1621. Two of the few authors to acknowledge this work were Ben Jonson and Edward Denny.

" Pamphilia must conceal her songs so that her moral character is not called into question by others in Urania.

The social back-lash against her work caused Urania to be pulled from publication 6 months after it was first produced.

Melancholy is connected in the poem with the " heavenly " muse Urania, the goddess of inspiring epics, through her focus and through her relationship with Saturn.

The fifth wife of Zeus was another aunt, Mnemosyne, from whom came the nine Muses: Clio, Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpsikhore, Erato, Polymnia, Urania, and Calliope.

In 1806 – 1807, while at Auteuil, he first appeared before the public as a poet, with two pieces, one entitled Urania, in the classical style, of which he became later the most conspicuous adversary, the other an elegy in blank verse, on the death of Count Carlo Imbonati, from whom, through his mother, he inherited considerable property, including the villa of Brusuglio, thenceforward his principal residence.

The nine muses — Clio, Thalia, Erato, Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Calliope, Terpsichore, Urania, Melpomene — on a Roman sarcophagus ( 2nd century AD, from the Louvre )

Urania (; ; which stems from the Greek word for ' heavenly ' or ' of heaven ') was, in Greek mythology, the muse of astronomy.

" The name Urania is taken from the Greek muse of astronomy.

* The Christian imagery of the Dove as the Holy Spirit is derived from its use as the emblem of the " heavenly love " of Aphrodite Urania.

Urania ( Selections from A Trophy of Arms, The Spirit Watches, and The Bridge.

She has won a number of literary prizes, and published short fiction in Millemondi Urania from Mondadori and in various newspapers, magazines, and anthologies.

He graduated from Realgymnasium in Lippstadt before entering Friedrich Wilhelm University in 1882 and where he and Wilhelm Förster founded the Urania Astronomical Society at the Berlin University Observatory.

The word " Uranometria " derives from Urania, Muse of the heavens and " uranos " ( oυρανός ) the Greek word for sky / heavens.

The ninth New Muse, Urania, the muse of astronomy, is a holdover from the original group.

The original name of the series was I Romanzi di Urania (" Urania's novels "), to differentiate it from another magazine with the same name ( but popularly known as Urania Rivista, " Urania Magazine "), which featured only short stories.

The competition of Premio Urania (" Urania Award ") was launched in 1990, open to all previously unpublished Italian novels from famous or unknown authors.