Anne Hathaway
Wife of William Shakespeare (1556-1623) · United States · Actors · Died at 67
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She married an 18-year-old playwright when she was 26 and pregnant, then outlived him by seven years - and nearly everything else about Anne Hathaway comes down to guesswork and gaps in the record.
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Hathaway family cottage, Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon
Inscribed brass on Anne Shakespeare's tombstone in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon
Sonnet 145, with original spelling
A 19th-century German engraving depicting Shakespeare as a family man surrounded by his children, who listen entranced to his stories. His wife Anne is portrayed at the right sewing a garment.
Falstaff; part of the sculpture park in the cottage gardenListen
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Anne Hathaway was born in 1556, sometimes called Agnes in her father's will. In 1582, pregnant and 26, she married William Shakespeare, then just 18 - young even by Elizabethan standards, though her age was typical for brides of the time. Beyond a handful of documentary mentions, almost nothing concrete survives about her personality or the nature of their marriage. Shakespeare died in 1616; she followed in 1623. What remains is an outline that historians and novelists have spent centuries trying to fill, projecting onto the silences what the documents refuse to say.
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