Unlocking Anne

Anne Lock, a woman living in 16th-century England, wrote the first ever sonnet sequence in the English language? Impossible, thought Clare Pollard. As a celebrated playwright and poet, with much of her work focused on giving a voice to forgotten women, how could she not have known about Anne Lock? In this Sunday Feature, Pollard takes listeners into Anne's world and time, as she pieces together the fascinating life and work of a forgotten female sonneteer.

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Unlocking Anne is an episode from The Radio 3 Documentary by BBC.

This episode is 43:33 long.

This episode was published on Jan 1, 2023.

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