In which Agnes Hathaway lives with her family in her cute cottage, but much too soon a sickness sweeps across the county and takes Agnes' mother and unborn baby. Her father remarries a mean woman named Joan who does nothing but scold Agnes and her sister, making their lives miserable. Then young Will Shakespeare comes back from a trip all grown up and tells Agnes about his dreams of being a poet. When the time comes for Agnes to marry, her father is dead and her stepmother has betrothed Agnes to her yucky nephew Hob. She gets out of marrying him, and marries Will (who calls her Anne).
I liked to read the story of Anne Hathaway. In this book I learned a lot, like that Anne's real name was Agnes (even my mom didn't know that!) and that Will was 7 years younger then Anne. Their marriage was not a happy one, since Will was hardly ever home and only came home for like two weeks out of the year. Poor Anne and kids! In the end she did outlive him by 8 years.
Recommended for: people who like love stories, and Anne Hathaway.
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