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  • Shakespeare's Sisters

  • Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance
  • By: Ramie Targoff
  • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
  • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
  • 1.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Shakespeare's Sisters

By: Ramie Targoff
Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
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'An outstanding revisionist portrait of an age' Telegraph
'Targoff tells their stories with vim and vigour' i Paper
'[A] fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women' Tina Brown, New York Times

Discover the lives and work of four ambitious Renaissance women who, against all odds, made themselves heard-and read-in the time of Shakespeare

In an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid-16th century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men. Some readers may have heard of Mary Sidney, accomplished poet and sister of the famous Sir Philip Sidney, but few will have heard of Aemilia Lanyer, the first woman in the 17th century to publish a book of original poetry, which offered a feminist take on the crucifixion, or Elizabeth Cary, who published the first original play by a woman, about the plight of the Jewish princess Mariam. Then there was Anne Clifford, a lifelong diarist, who fought for decades against a patriarchy that tried to rob her of her land in one of England's most infamous inheritance battles.

These women had husbands and children to care for and little support for their art, yet against all odds they defined themselves as writers, finding rooms of their own where doors had been shut for centuries.

Targoff flings them open to uncover the treasures left by these extraordinary women; in the process, she helps us see the Renaissance in a fresh light, creating a richer understanding of history and offering a much-needed female perspective on life in Shakespeare's day.
©2024 Ramie Targoff (P)2024 Quercus Editions Limited
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Over the past thirty years, scholars - mostly women - have recovered and celebrated the works of an array of long-forgotten female writers of the English Renaissance. Now Ramie Targoff has had the ingenious idea of telling the lives and exploring the works of some of them in an innovative group biography. She brings back to life and shares with a wider readership the literary talents of four women of varying backgrounds but equal fortitude. (Sir Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare scholar)

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