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Thank you We sneak Mary sidney herbert who was in

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herbert's book club and amelia lanier the self declared poet

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alas shmoop Michael drayton samuel daniel edmund edmund spencer like

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of very easy with a harry that's a pretty amazing

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set of connections So philip sidney would be like having

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a book club today with like stephen king and and

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jonathan france and france So claudia rank and that's the

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smartest most interesting people but also the best selling people

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It's a great group This is basically oprah's book club

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Yeah but they actually all get together These of course

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were meant at the time so she's in this interesting

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position where she is very well connected to men who

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get published at this time when like women don't get

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a lot of publicity absolutely And they're talking about very

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serious subjects together politics and religion In addition to you

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know music and poetry and people think that she might

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have been the muse toe one one or multiple grew

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so again the smart woman takes the day She was

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the first woman in england to declare himself a poet

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when she was in her forties She published this book

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of poetry to kind of prove it Also so was

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quite political Yeah knocked you out being with deal topping

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where's Veronica franco was like no it's okay for me

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to be personal like women khun b the whole range

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of things These women were trying to prove that they

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had what it takes in a man's world empire that

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is on ly addressing the super serious stuff so they

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didn't want to be dismissed this frivolous They didn't want

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to be the ones writing about swooning and being in

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love or like having babies they wanted to write about

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like god and truth there joining the boys club more

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or less What famous poets were in herbert's book club

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And what did they discuss What was lanier trying to

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say about women through her poetry The social implications of

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the barons dean bears was the lesser known hopping in 00:02:10.11 --> [endTime] the book club

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