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Early modern women

Lady Mary Wroth and 'The Countess of Montgomery's Urania'
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Shakespeare and Beyond

Lady Mary Wroth and 'The Countess of Montgomery's Urania'

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Shakespeare & Beyond

Lady Mary Wroth watched Shakespeare act in his own plays, heard her relative Sir Walter Raleigh talk about founding Virginia, and almost certainly met Pocahantas and ambassadors from Morocco. Wroth’s later prose fiction echoes elements of her own life, including…

Studying early modern women—in Shakespeare's plays and in his time
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Shakespeare and Beyond

Studying early modern women—in Shakespeare's plays and in his time

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Esther Ferington

By Esther Ferington The roles of early modern women in Shakespeare’s time—both the fictional characters in his plays and the real-life women of his era—have been central to many projects created by Georgianna Ziegler, Louis B. Thalheimer Associate Librarian and…

Women marking the text
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Women marking the text

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Georgianna Ziegler

“I beegan, to ourloke this Booke . . . .”  These words are written by Lady Anne Clifford on the title page of her copy of John Selden’s Titles of Honor (1631), which is featured in the first case of…

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