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Shakespears Sister were an alternative [1] pop and rock musical duo that was formed in 1988 by Irish singer-songwriter Siobhan Fahey, a former member of Bananarama. Shakespears Sister was initially a solo act but became a duo by 1989, with the addition of American musician Marcella Detroit.
Joan Shakespeare (married name Joan Hart; baptised 15 April 1569 – buried 4 November 1646) was the sister of William Shakespeare. She is the only member of the family whose known descendants continue down to the present day.
Mar 31, 2024 · Born in 1569, five years after the famous bard, she was the only one of William’s seven siblings to survive him. We know that Joan married a hatter, William Hart, had four children, and lived in...
Dec 29, 2015 · In a passage from the 1929 classic A Room of One’s Own (public library), Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882–March 28, 1941) presents a pause-giving thought experiment: What if Shakespeare had had a sister — that is, a female sibling of comparable talent and identical family background?
Mar 4, 2024 · Shakespeare’s Sisters tells the occasionally interlocking life stories of four women writers born in the latter half of the sixteenth century: Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, and Anne Clifford. Each married and bore children.
Aug 8, 2024 · Thirteen-year-old Anne Clifford’s mother Margaret was among those who sat up with the Queen’s coffin for several nights during the many weeks it lay in state before burial. Æmilia Lanyer’s father, a musician in the Queen’s court, marched in Elizabeth’s funeral procession, as did newly married Elizabeth Cary’s father-in-law, Sir ...
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Mar 12, 2024 · Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance. Ramie Targoff (2024) And the list by no means stops here. I've chosen these four women to anchor my book Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance, but there are many more who deserve our attention.