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about medieval women writers. Discussion The first reading is by Margaret J. M. Ezell and is entitled "The Myth of Judith Shakespeare." In her article, Ezell says that she is
especially concerned with the current scholarship on early women writers: "It is my contention that the twentieth centurys perceptions of works by women writing in the Renaissance and seventeenth century
are based on a set of anachronistic and deforming presumptions about literary practice, production, and genre, bolstered by an outdated "Whig" interpretation of English society" (Ezell, 1979, p. 579). She
argues that most of what we know about early women writers comes from anthologies, and that these texts, which are considered authoritative on the subject, are creating a canon in
which it is becoming accepted that no women wrote anything before Aphra Behn, who wrote during the Restoration (Ezell, 1979). Earlier women writers are completely ignored, she says, which
led Virginia Woolf to create "Judith Shakespeare," Williams sister, as part of her novel A Room with a View (Ezell, 1979). In the Woolf novel, "Judith is denied a formal
education, discouraged from wasting her time scribbling, betrothed in her teens, and beaten by her father; she runs away to London, is rejected by the theater world, becomes pregnant, and
finally she killed herself one winters night and lies buried at some cross-roads" (Ezell, 1979, p. 579). She was clearly not a "commercial, publishing author," notes Ezell with some asperity
(1979, p. 579). Woolfs creation of a female author contemporary with Shakespeare was meant to illustrate the point that "any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth
century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at" (Ezell, 1979, p.
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