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Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

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Quiet talent comes to life in this fascinating portrait of four women writers honing their craft in Renaissance England, when women were still considered men’s property.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • 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 anyone ever imagined the 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...

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