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
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…
Hurrem Sultan as the first haseki of the Ottoman Empire
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…


