Hello, friend, and welcome. Welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network, and the original Tudor podcast, celebrating 15 years of Tudor podcasting this year.

I am your host, Heather Tesco.

I am very happy to be here with you.

I'm very happy you are here with me.

And March is, of course, Women's History Month.

So we are going to be focusing all month on stories of women,

particular women, life cycles of women, and we're going to be doing this both here on the podcast

and on my YouTube channel, which you can check out. I'll put a link in the show notes.

And we're just going to be focusing on all

kinds of things having to do with women this month. So that will be fun and feminine and

everything like that. Today we are talking the life cycles of tutor women. So basically,

going through each phase in a tutor woman's life and talking

about it because there were some changes between what women in the 16th century experienced during

their lives and what I have experienced and what my peers have experienced in

the 21st century. So we're going to talk about that a little bit and what was going on for

women during each phase. First, though, I want to thank the new members and patrons of this show.

Welcome, welcome to Roberta, Robin, and Jennifer, who joined on Patreon.

I'm so happy to have you here. Members receive extra episodes, mini courses, depending on what level you're at.

Author chats, live author chats. We just did one with Janet Wirtman, which I will be posting

sooner. Maybe I've already posted it depending on when you listen to this. And other fun perks.

Also, same thing on YouTube. Thank you and welcome to my newest YouTube members. If you're

listening to this on YouTube, you can just go ahead and click join this channel to get the same perks and fun things.

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