Lou ann graham biography of william shakespeare

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It is, however, understood that it would have been Anne's right, through English Common Law, to one-third of William's estate as well as residence for life at New Place.

HATHAWAY BIOGRAPHY - ANNE - HER LAST YEARS
The last years of Anne's life were spent living as a widow at New Place in Stratford. He occasionally returned home to see his wife and the family.

He rejoined his wife and two surviving children. In 1603 yet again the plague ravages London in 1603. In 1594 he would even play before the Queen in the banqueting hall at Whitehall. 
So William's success in Theatre was getting well underway when in 1593 there was a setback. It was very unusual for couples only to have 3 children during the Elizabethan era as there was such a high mortality rate amongst children.

William’s younger siblings were Gilbert (born in 1566), Joan (1569), Anne (1571), Richard (1574) and Edmund (1580).

In this same year, his son Hamnet died of unknown causes, aged eleven.

By 1599 Shakespeare was living in Bankside, on the south side of The Thames near the infamous Clink Prison. Anne Hathaway and her family lived in a big farmhouse, called Hewland Farm in Shottery. This theory could explain why he left his wife and children in Stratford and reappeared 90 miles away in London.

(The exact date or cause of death is unknown but it seems fitting that he died on April 23rd April, the same approximate date of his birth, on St. George's Day, the patron Saint of England). Shakespeare would leave the bulk of his fortune to his daughter, Susanna. This is not a watertight argument though because Italian literature would have been widely read at the time.

He held local public positions and was a bailiff (like a mayor) in the town council. Anne Hathaway would have therefore continued living in her father's home with her step-mother and brothers and sisters but the status of head of the household would have moved to her brother Bartholomew Hathaway. Mountjoy. His first three children, including Anne Hathaway, were by his first wife.

The daughter of Richard Hathaway is identified as Agnes Hathaway. Six months after the marriage, in May 1583, Anne and William became the parents of Susanna Shakespeare.