EAN: 9781529404906

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This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before there was any possibility of 'a room of one's own.' 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.

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