{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The New York Review of Books","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com","author_name":"Lucy McKeon","author_url":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/contributors\/lmckeon\/","title":"The Secret Feminist History of Shakespeare and\u00a0Company |","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Y24ZApQxjR\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/online\/2019\/11\/18\/the-secret-feminist-history-of-shakespeare-company\/\">The Secret Feminist History of Shakespeare and\u00a0Company<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/online\/2019\/11\/18\/the-secret-feminist-history-of-shakespeare-company\/embed\/#?secret=Y24ZApQxjR\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Secret Feminist History of Shakespeare and\u00a0Company&#8221; &#8212; The New York Review of Books\" data-secret=\"Y24ZApQxjR\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","description":"\u201cCertain people are meant to be midwives\u2014not mothers of invention. Sylvia was one,\u201d wrote No\u00ebl Riley Fitch, author of Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation (1983), in the most recent introduction to a collection of Beach\u2019s letters. Yet to characterize Beach as merely a \u201cmidwife\u201d and to remember her primarily for bringing into being the work of Great Men is to misrepresent her and the everyday work of her shop. Revisiting the story behind Shakespeare and Company\u2019s creation reveals that its roots lie in early twentieth-century feminist activism and, in particular, Beach\u2019s own deep-rooted conviction that women had a right to an intellectual life.\u00a0","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/beach-lead.jpg"}