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	Podcast:		Early Modern History
	Episode:		The Four (Next) Most Powerful Women in Elizabethan England (Ridge Lecture 2010–11)
	Category:		Society & Culture
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	Publish Date:		2011-02-16 13:04:47
	Description:		Histories of the Renaissance woman usually conclude that she was “chaste, silent, and obedient” (with the notable exception of Elizabeth I). Claire McEachern, professor of English at UCLA, discusses four extraordinary sisters—Mildred, Anne, Elizabeth, and Katherine Cooke—whose lives as intellectuals, reformers, wives, and mothers challenge the assumptions about was possible for women in the 16th century.
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