Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
[A] fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women of the 16th and early 17th centuries ... Targoff’s intent is to scrape away the layer of literary obscurity from Shakespeare’s sisters and present the pentimento as transcendent survivors. Their work indeed lives on.
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Lanyer’s case may not persuade, but Ms. Targoff’s does: These little-known female voices widen our lens onto a past we thought we knew.
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This is a very readable but scholarly work on a little-known part of literary history.
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