Mistress Shakespeare, Karen Harper
Mistress Shakespeare, Karen Harper
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Mistress Shakespeare
A Novel

Author: Karen Harper

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Unabridged: 11 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/05/2009


Synopsis

A bold and intriguing novel about the woman who was William Shakespeare's secret wife from New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper. As historical records show, Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton was betrothed to William Shakespeare just days before he was forced to wed the pregnant Anne Hathaway. Here, Anne Whateley takes up her pen to tell the intimate story of her daring life with Will. Obliged to acknowledge Will's publicly sanctioned marriage, Anne Whateley nevertheless follows him from rural Stratford-Upon-Avon to teeming London, where they honor their secret union, the coming together of two passionate souls. Persecution and plague, insurrection and inferno, friends and foes all play parts in Anne's lively tale.Spanning half a century of Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and sweeping from the lowest reaches of society to the royal court, this richly textured novel tells the real story of Shakespeare in love.

About Karen Harper

Karen Harper is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of several romantic suspense novels, including the Amish Home Valley trilogy. A former Ohio State University English instructor, she now writes full-time. Karen is the winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award for her novel Dark Angel. She also writes historical novels set in Tudor England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Annette

History is not clear about Shakespeare - whom he married. It is accepted by most historians that he married Anne Hathaway. The mystery of Anne Whateley remains. The author weaves a captivating story of Mistress Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton, located outside Stratford-Upon-the-Avon, where Will Shake......more

Goodreads review by LeAnn

I enjoyed this "what-if" drawn from a single line in a legal register from 1582 that had Shakespeare applying for a marriage bond to a woman named Anne Whately the day before he applied for one for Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant. Harper, assuming that the first Anne was no mistake and was a love ma......more