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Shakespeare's sisters : how women wrote the Renaissance
\"A remarkable work about women writers in the Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period and brings us in close to four women who were committed to their craft before there was any possibility of \"a room of one's own.\" In a sparkling and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespearean England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid 16th century into the private lives of four women writers working without acknowledgment at a time when women were legally the property of men. Some readers may have heard of Mary Sidney, accomplished poet and sister of the famous Sir Philip Sidney, but few will have heard of Amelia Lanyer, the first woman to publish a book of poetry in the 17th century, which offered a feminist take on the crucifixion, or Elizabeth Cary, who published the first original play by a woman, about the plight of the Jewish princess Mariam. Then there was Anne Clifford, a lifelong diarist, who fought for decades against a patriarchy that tried to rob her of her land, in one of England's most infamous inheritance battles. These women had husbands and children to care for and little support for their art, yet against all odds they defined themselves as writers, finding rooms of their own whose doors had been shut for centuries. Targoff flings them open to uncover the treasures left by these extraordinary women by helping us see the period in a fresh light and by supplying an expanded reading of history and a much-needed female perspective on life in Shakespeare's day\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Anne Clifford's autobiographical writing, 1590–1676
Anne Clifford describes the dramatic and tragic events of her life in the seventeenth century. Of how she danced in the masques of Inigo Jones, experienced both joy and abuse in her two marriages, lost and gained an inheritance, and successfully defended her rights against kings and armies. All told in rich detail amidst the backdrop of daily life.
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Anne Clifford's autobiographical writing, 1590-1676
Lady Anne Clifford (1590-1676) was a prominent noble woman in the seventeenth century. During her long life she experienced the courts of Elizabeth, James and Charles I. She fought a decades long battle to secure her inheritance of the Clifford lands of the north, providing a spirited and legally robust defense of her rights despite the opposition of powerful men, including James I. She eventually inherited the Clifford lands, and she describes her subsequent struggles to reclaim her authority in these lands still mired in the civil wars. Her autobiographies reveal her joys and griefs within a vivid description of seventeenth-century life. They reveal a personality that was vulnerable and determined; charitable and canny. Her autobiographies provide a window into a vibrant world of seventeenth-century life as lived by this complex and intriguing seventeenth-century woman.
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Anne Clifford's autobiographical writing, 1590–1676
Despite the fact that the law recognized his sole surviving child, Anne, as heir to the vast hereditary estates of the Clifford family in the North of England, Clifford had willed all that property to his brother, Francis Clifford. Surely one of the original prototypes for \"Nevertheless, she persisted,\" Anne played the long game and, in 1643, notwithstanding great personal and political cost, and having outlived every single male heir on the Clifford side, Anne took possession of the Clifford estates. [...]it is the plain immediacy of Clifford's prose, the frankness with which she writes about her relationships, the compulsive returning to moments in her life of immense but formative difficulty, the resilient snap back to the itinerant life and itinerant, almost stream of consciousness, style of recording that life that captures the insistence of self, an ontological and discursive category that was not readily available to women in the early modern period. The legal dispute over Clifford's property dominates every square inch of her life writings after the 1603 memoir, though even that text, clearly written or revised long after 1603 and focused as it is on the death of Queen Elizabeth, is itself notably concerned with places denoting wealth and privilege.
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