Four female writers at the court of Elizabeth I

Shakespeare’s Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance Ramie Targoff

Riverrun, pp.320, 25

Almost a century ago, in A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf claimed that if William Shakespeare had had an equally talented sister the obstacles to her sharing his vocation would have been insurmountable. Woolf’s argument that a woman needs ‘money and a room of her own’ in order to write proved persuasive.

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TaggedAemilia Lanyer, Anne Clifford, Ben Jonson, Biography, Diaries, Elizabeth Cary, Elizabeth I, john donne, Mary Sidney, Poetry, the Psalms, Theatre

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Four female writers at the court of Elizabeth I

Of Ramie Targoff’s gifted quartet, Mary Sidney was particularly admired by her contemporaries for her translation of the Psalms into English verse

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