Anne Clifford’s diaries, Mary Sidney’s translations, Aemilia Lanyer’s poems, Elizabeth Cary’s playwriting: out of these a fine scholar of Renaissance literature constructs an illuminating group biography of four quietly radical women.
Shakespeare’s Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance
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