Anne Whateley is the name given to a woman who is sometimes supposed to have been the intended wife of William Shakespeare before he married Anne Hathaway. Most scholars …

Aug 14, 2013 · Stratford tradition has long held that Anne Whateley resided in Hillborough Manor - 'haunted Hillborough' - which fell inside the parish of Temple Grafton. Like so many a jilted …

Oct 29, 2012 · On one day Shakespeare is contracted to marry ‘Anne Whately’ (a common surname in the Worcester area) then the next he is marrying ‘Anne Hathwey’, the woman who, …

Shakespeare was said to have been courting her before Anne Hathaway came along and the poet dropped Mistress Whateley in a rush to marry Anne Hathaway because the latter was …

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 …

Aug 30, 2024 · This argument was made by William Ross in his book The Story of Anne Whateley and William Shaxpere (1939), in which he asserted that Whateley was a nun who was his …

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 …

In a wonderful, lively, insightful and heartbreaking love story, Harper allows Shakespeare's secret wife, Anne Whateley, to narrate her colorful, lusty story. With her sharp eye for detail and …

Dec 12, 2021 · So Anne or Agnes may have kept up the family tradition and served as a nun in that secluded manor. Stratford lore insists that Hillborough Manor is haunted by a White Lady, …

Dec 15, 2009 · The story of Anne Whateley and William Shaxpere as revealed by "The Sonnets to Mr. W.H." and other Elizabethan poetry ... by William Alexander Ross, 1939, Holmes edition, …