Ramie targoff biography for kids
Ramie targoff biography for kids
Biography for 2nd graders!
Ramie Targoff, author of “Shakespeare’s Sisters,” in conversation with Philippa Kelly
Presented by Orinda Books, and co-sponsored with Cal Shakes and Mechanics’ Institute.
Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2024 – 12:00pm
Location: ONLINE
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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 Queen Elizabeth in the mid-sixteenth century into the private lives of four women writers working 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 Aemili