# Shakespeare's Mistress

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- Book: [Shakespeare's Mistress](https://www.bookquiver.com/karen-harper/shakespeares-mistress) ([Shakespeare's Mistress.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/karen-harper/shakespeares-mistress.md))
- Authors: [Karen Harper](https://www.bookquiver.com/karen-harper)
- Publisher: Ebury Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4811-616-4
- Published: 2011-11-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

England, 1601. When Queen Elizabeth's men come looking for William Shakespeare - a rumoured Catholic in a time of Catholic-Protestant intrigue and insurrection - they first question a beautiful, dark-haired woman who seems to know the famous playwright very well. Too well. She is Anne Whateley, born in Temple Grafton, a small town just up the river from Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon. And as church records show - were anyone to look for them - Anne Whateley was wed to William Shakespeare in a small country church just days before he married another woman, Anne Hathaway, who has lived as his wife for decades. In SHAKESPEARE'S MISTRESS, Anne Whateley - who may or may not be Will's true wife - tells her story. Stretching almost fifty years, from the rural villages of Warwickshire to the bustling city of London, with its teeming streets and lively theatres, it's a story of undying passion, for life, love, and literature.