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‘Witty above her sex’: Restoring Shakespeare’s Women to the Record

Lyndsey Jenkins / November 26, 2021

This weekend, over 400 years ago, Anne Hathaway married William Shakespeare.  This year, at last, Anne and her daughters Susanna and Judith were given their proper place in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In the late nineteenth century, Virginia Woolf’s…

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Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World: The Musical

Lyndsey Jenkins / November 11, 2021

By Kathrina Perry Interview with Frances Mayli McCann Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is a new musical based on the book by Kate Pankhurst, a descendant of Emmeline Pankhurst, adapted by Chris Bush (Nine Lessons and Carols, Almeida…

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Hurrem Sultan as the first haseki of the Ottoman Empire

Lyndsey Jenkins / January 5, 2021

During the sixteenth to seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire saw a change in its political dynamic, as Imperial women began to influence the decisions of the Imperial court.[1] 1534-1683 is known as the ‘Sultanate of Women’ as Imperial women within…

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