Episode 239 – Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance with Professor Ramie Targoff

Guest Bio

Ramie Targoff is Professor of English, co-chair of Italian Studies, and the Jehuda Reinharz Director of the Mandel Centre for the Humanities at Brandeis University. She holds a BA from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Ramie is the author of numerous books on Renaissance poetry and religion and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

https://ramietargoff.com/

Professor Targoff’s Tudor Takeaways

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Six the Musical

Natalie Grueninger speaks with Professor Targoff about four women Renaissance writers.

Tune in to hear Natalie and Ramie discuss:

–  Challenges that women writers faced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England

– How women navigated the societal constraints imposed on them

– The lives and works of Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary and Anne Clifford

– Other women writers from the period that deserve more attention

– The importance of recovering the lost voices of women from the past

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