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Dark-haired and strong-willed, Elizabethan beauty Anne Whateley takes up her pen to divulge the intimate details of her daring life and her great love, William Shakespeare. As historical documents show, Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton was betrothed to Will just days and nights before he was compelled to wed the pregnant Anne Hathaway of Shottery. Their magic formula wedding in a country cathedral includes two ardent souls whose union survives separation, betrayal, and the barbs of small-town gossips. From rural Stratford-Upon-the-Avon to teeming London, Anne and can struggle to forge his job and remain safe from Elizabeth I’s campaign to hunt down magic formula Catholics. Persecution and plague, insurrection and inferno, friends and foes, even executions, all become more active in Anne’s heart-rending history. Spanning half of a century of Elizabethan and Jacobean record and sweeping from the lowest reaches of world to the royal courtroom, this richly textured book tells the real history of Shakespeare in love.
