Women worth knowing
Extraordinary women, overlooked stories, and a more complete history. Explore the lives, ideas, and achievements that changed the world.
Miranda Garno Nesler is an manuscript specialist and literary critic whose work focuses on gender performance and animal studies. Her work has appeared in the Shakespearean International Yearbook and Studies in English Literature. She is the editor of the blog Performing Humanity.
She used royal performances to celebrate powerful women and bring them into dramatic art, creating opportunities for participation that challenged the limits of a queen’s formal authority.
Her meticulous observations earned the respect of leading scientists and challenged established ideas, demonstrating how much careful study of the natural world could uncover.