Shakespeare’s Sisters Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/shakespeares-sisters/ Tue, 19 Apr 2016 05:42:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Shakespeare’s Sisters—The Bard’s most accomplished female literary contemporaries https://booksbywomen.org/shakespeares-sisters-the-bards-most-accomplished-female-literary-contemporaries/ https://booksbywomen.org/shakespeares-sisters-the-bards-most-accomplished-female-literary-contemporaries/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2016 05:17:51 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15389 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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