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Shakespeare’s Sisters—The Bard’s most accomplished female literary contemporaries

Shakespeare’s Sisters—The Bard’s most accomplished female literary contemporaries

April 23, 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with worldwide celebrations to mark his legacy. But what about the women? In her iconic essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf imagines the life of Shakespeare’s brilliant sister Judith, barred from the grammar school because of her sex and forced to hide her […]

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