Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance', by Ramie Targoff, brings to light the powerful voices of Renaissance women writers who broke through societal constraints to craft enduring literary legacies. Through themes of love, politics, spirituality, and power, Targoff uncovers the resilience of these trailblazing women who shaped literary history. At the Jaipur Literature Festival 2025, she discusses their remarkable contributions in conversation with Katy Hessel.

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Harvard Book Store welcomes RAMIE TARGOFF—the Jehuda Reinharz Professor of the Humanities, professor of English, and co-chair of Italian Studies at Brandeis University and author of Renaissance Woman—for a discussion of her new book Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance. She will be joined in conversation by ADAM GOPNIK—staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery. 

Learn about female writers during the Renaissance when Ramie Targoff discusses her new book, Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance with Shannon Kelley, Ph.D. of Fairfield University.

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Ramie Targoff launches off her rich new group biography of women writers during the Renaissance. In conversation with Merve Emre.

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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-16th century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men.

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Join us for an eye-opening discussion, led by author Ramie Targoff, about the private lives of four women who defied the odds and made themselves heard - and read - in the time of Shakespeare.

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Join us for an enlightening evening with Professor Ramie Targoff, as she discusses her latest book ‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’. 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-16th century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men.

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We’re delighted to be joined by Ramie Targoff at Waterstones Piccadilly as we celebrate the publication of Shakespeare’s Sisters. Discover the lives and work of four ambitious renaissance women who made themselves heard and read in the time of Shakespeare.

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Discover the lives and work of four ambitious Renaissance women who, against all odds, made themselves heard-and read-in the time of Shakespeare. 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-16th century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men.

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For the second edition of our new series of Research Conversations exploring The Women Who Made Shakespeare, we welcome Professor Ramie Targoff.

Professor Ramie will introduce to us her exciting new book, Shakespeare’s Sisters, which explodes our notion of the role of women in the Renaissance period by drawing us into the lives of four women writers - Mary Sidney Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, and Anne Clifford – who all managed to find their own voices at a time when women were not expected or sometimes permitted to have the same standing in society as men.

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