The Women Of Shakespeare's Family
CONTENTS
Mary Arden, Mother
Joan Shakespeare, Sister
Anne Hathaway, Wife
Susannah Shakespeare, Daughter
Judith Shakespeare, Daughter
Elizabeth Hall, Granddaughter
ILLUSTRATIONS
Grammar School and the Old Guild Chapel
Robert and Mary Arden's Home, Wilmcote
Shakespeare's Birthplace—Joan's Home
Garden View of Birthplace
Richard Hathaway's Home, Shottery
Ye Hall's Croft
A Room at "The Cage"—Judith's Home
Abington Abbey and Church
* * * * *
An excerpt from the beginning of the book:
MARY ARDEN
If, as is generally believed, all great men owe much to a mother, surely next to the one "highly favoured among women," the holy mother whom "all generations shall call blessed," the name of Mary Arden should be held in everlasting remembrance. Volumes might be filled with tributes to the immortal memory of her son; more were paid to him by his contemporaries than to any other sixteenth-century writer. Let us not forget, even at this remote period, how much the world owes to the mother of one who was the greatest of men ; the mother who possibly never fully realised the greatness of his genius, but who would discern, as is the manner of mothers, the other than ordinary mind of her boy.
Mary Arden was the youngest daughter of Robert Arden of Wilmcote, in the parish of Aston Cantlowe; of her mother not even the name is known. Her father, left a widower with seven daughters, took for his second wife, in 1550, Agnes Webbe, widow of one John Hill, who left her with one son and one daughter (this Agnes was probably sister to Alex. Webbe, who had married Robert Arden's daughter Margaret); and judging from the fact that her step-children are not even named in her will, it would seem as if but little cordiality existed between them and their father's second wife. This may possibly account in a measure for nothing being known of their own mother, only a noble-hearted woman would keep fresh in the minds of the children the name and memory of their dead mother.
Mary's father, Robert Arden, in spite of all that has been written to the contrary, is clearly proved to have descended from Walter Arden, of Park Hall, co. Warwick, so that on the "spindle side" William Shakespeare had in his veins the blood of those who had owned a great part of that county whose chief boast to-day is that it gave birth to the great poet, who reflects back to his ancestors a glory that can never be surpassed.
Robert Arden was evidently a man of wealth; the furnishing of the "halle" of his house being really above the average of a country gentleman's of that period. Mr. T. Wright, M. A., F .S. A., described the furniture of the "halle" in the manor-house of Croxdale, co. Durham, in the year 1571, as consisting of "one cupboard, one table, two buffet stools, and one chair; yet Salvin of Croxdale was looked upon as one of the principal gentry in the Palatinate." In Robert Arden's "halle" were to be found "two table bordes, three choyres, two fformes, one cubborde, two coshenes, three benches, one lytle table with shelves and two painted cloths." There were nine other painted cloths in the house; and in his widow's will the mention of two salts clearly points to her rank as being that of a gentlewoman.
Mary Arden, who was the youngest and evidently much loved daughter of Robert Arden, had thus ever been accustomed to comfortable surroundings in her father's home, amid all the sweet sights and sounds of country life. It has been conjectured that Mary may have lived at one time with her grandfather, Thomas Arden, at the Asbies, his house at Wilmcote, as she eventually owned that property, making her portion considerably larger than that of her sisters.
There was undoubtedly an early acquaintance between the Arden and the Shakespeare families, for Richard Shakespeare, of Snitterfield, believed to have been the poet's grandfather, held lands under Robert Arden; so Mary would not be a stranger when, leaving her country home, she came as a bride to her husband's house in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon. How little did she dream as she crossed its threshold that this very dwelling was to become in after years a place of pilgrimage for people of almost every nationality—the literary shrine of the world!
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Mary Arden, Mother
Joan Shakespeare, Sister
Anne Hathaway, Wife
Susannah Shakespeare, Daughter
Judith Shakespeare, Daughter
Elizabeth Hall, Granddaughter
ILLUSTRATIONS
Grammar School and the Old Guild Chapel
Robert and Mary Arden's Home, Wilmcote
Shakespeare's Birthplace—Joan's Home
Garden View of Birthplace
Richard Hathaway's Home, Shottery
Ye Hall's Croft
A Room at "The Cage"—Judith's Home
Abington Abbey and Church
* * * * *
An excerpt from the beginning of the book:
MARY ARDEN
If, as is generally believed, all great men owe much to a mother, surely next to the one "highly favoured among women," the holy mother whom "all generations shall call blessed," the name of Mary Arden should be held in everlasting remembrance. Volumes might be filled with tributes to the immortal memory of her son; more were paid to him by his contemporaries than to any other sixteenth-century writer. Let us not forget, even at this remote period, how much the world owes to the mother of one who was the greatest of men ; the mother who possibly never fully realised the greatness of his genius, but who would discern, as is the manner of mothers, the other than ordinary mind of her boy.
Mary Arden was the youngest daughter of Robert Arden of Wilmcote, in the parish of Aston Cantlowe; of her mother not even the name is known. Her father, left a widower with seven daughters, took for his second wife, in 1550, Agnes Webbe, widow of one John Hill, who left her with one son and one daughter (this Agnes was probably sister to Alex. Webbe, who had married Robert Arden's daughter Margaret); and judging from the fact that her step-children are not even named in her will, it would seem as if but little cordiality existed between them and their father's second wife. This may possibly account in a measure for nothing being known of their own mother, only a noble-hearted woman would keep fresh in the minds of the children the name and memory of their dead mother.
Mary's father, Robert Arden, in spite of all that has been written to the contrary, is clearly proved to have descended from Walter Arden, of Park Hall, co. Warwick, so that on the "spindle side" William Shakespeare had in his veins the blood of those who had owned a great part of that county whose chief boast to-day is that it gave birth to the great poet, who reflects back to his ancestors a glory that can never be surpassed.
Robert Arden was evidently a man of wealth; the furnishing of the "halle" of his house being really above the average of a country gentleman's of that period. Mr. T. Wright, M. A., F .S. A., described the furniture of the "halle" in the manor-house of Croxdale, co. Durham, in the year 1571, as consisting of "one cupboard, one table, two buffet stools, and one chair; yet Salvin of Croxdale was looked upon as one of the principal gentry in the Palatinate." In Robert Arden's "halle" were to be found "two table bordes, three choyres, two fformes, one cubborde, two coshenes, three benches, one lytle table with shelves and two painted cloths." There were nine other painted cloths in the house; and in his widow's will the mention of two salts clearly points to her rank as being that of a gentlewoman.
Mary Arden, who was the youngest and evidently much loved daughter of Robert Arden, had thus ever been accustomed to comfortable surroundings in her father's home, amid all the sweet sights and sounds of country life. It has been conjectured that Mary may have lived at one time with her grandfather, Thomas Arden, at the Asbies, his house at Wilmcote, as she eventually owned that property, making her portion considerably larger than that of her sisters.
There was undoubtedly an early acquaintance between the Arden and the Shakespeare families, for Richard Shakespeare, of Snitterfield, believed to have been the poet's grandfather, held lands under Robert Arden; so Mary would not be a stranger when, leaving her country home, she came as a bride to her husband's house in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon. How little did she dream as she crossed its threshold that this very dwelling was to become in after years a place of pilgrimage for people of almost every nationality—the literary shrine of the world!
The Women Of Shakespeare's Family
CONTENTS
Mary Arden, Mother
Joan Shakespeare, Sister
Anne Hathaway, Wife
Susannah Shakespeare, Daughter
Judith Shakespeare, Daughter
Elizabeth Hall, Granddaughter
ILLUSTRATIONS
Grammar School and the Old Guild Chapel
Robert and Mary Arden's Home, Wilmcote
Shakespeare's Birthplace—Joan's Home
Garden View of Birthplace
Richard Hathaway's Home, Shottery
Ye Hall's Croft
A Room at "The Cage"—Judith's Home
Abington Abbey and Church
* * * * *
An excerpt from the beginning of the book:
MARY ARDEN
If, as is generally believed, all great men owe much to a mother, surely next to the one "highly favoured among women," the holy mother whom "all generations shall call blessed," the name of Mary Arden should be held in everlasting remembrance. Volumes might be filled with tributes to the immortal memory of her son; more were paid to him by his contemporaries than to any other sixteenth-century writer. Let us not forget, even at this remote period, how much the world owes to the mother of one who was the greatest of men ; the mother who possibly never fully realised the greatness of his genius, but who would discern, as is the manner of mothers, the other than ordinary mind of her boy.
Mary Arden was the youngest daughter of Robert Arden of Wilmcote, in the parish of Aston Cantlowe; of her mother not even the name is known. Her father, left a widower with seven daughters, took for his second wife, in 1550, Agnes Webbe, widow of one John Hill, who left her with one son and one daughter (this Agnes was probably sister to Alex. Webbe, who had married Robert Arden's daughter Margaret); and judging from the fact that her step-children are not even named in her will, it would seem as if but little cordiality existed between them and their father's second wife. This may possibly account in a measure for nothing being known of their own mother, only a noble-hearted woman would keep fresh in the minds of the children the name and memory of their dead mother.
Mary's father, Robert Arden, in spite of all that has been written to the contrary, is clearly proved to have descended from Walter Arden, of Park Hall, co. Warwick, so that on the "spindle side" William Shakespeare had in his veins the blood of those who had owned a great part of that county whose chief boast to-day is that it gave birth to the great poet, who reflects back to his ancestors a glory that can never be surpassed.
Robert Arden was evidently a man of wealth; the furnishing of the "halle" of his house being really above the average of a country gentleman's of that period. Mr. T. Wright, M. A., F .S. A., described the furniture of the "halle" in the manor-house of Croxdale, co. Durham, in the year 1571, as consisting of "one cupboard, one table, two buffet stools, and one chair; yet Salvin of Croxdale was looked upon as one of the principal gentry in the Palatinate." In Robert Arden's "halle" were to be found "two table bordes, three choyres, two fformes, one cubborde, two coshenes, three benches, one lytle table with shelves and two painted cloths." There were nine other painted cloths in the house; and in his widow's will the mention of two salts clearly points to her rank as being that of a gentlewoman.
Mary Arden, who was the youngest and evidently much loved daughter of Robert Arden, had thus ever been accustomed to comfortable surroundings in her father's home, amid all the sweet sights and sounds of country life. It has been conjectured that Mary may have lived at one time with her grandfather, Thomas Arden, at the Asbies, his house at Wilmcote, as she eventually owned that property, making her portion considerably larger than that of her sisters.
There was undoubtedly an early acquaintance between the Arden and the Shakespeare families, for Richard Shakespeare, of Snitterfield, believed to have been the poet's grandfather, held lands under Robert Arden; so Mary would not be a stranger when, leaving her country home, she came as a bride to her husband's house in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon. How little did she dream as she crossed its threshold that this very dwelling was to become in after years a place of pilgrimage for people of almost every nationality—the literary shrine of the world!
Mary Arden, Mother
Joan Shakespeare, Sister
Anne Hathaway, Wife
Susannah Shakespeare, Daughter
Judith Shakespeare, Daughter
Elizabeth Hall, Granddaughter
ILLUSTRATIONS
Grammar School and the Old Guild Chapel
Robert and Mary Arden's Home, Wilmcote
Shakespeare's Birthplace—Joan's Home
Garden View of Birthplace
Richard Hathaway's Home, Shottery
Ye Hall's Croft
A Room at "The Cage"—Judith's Home
Abington Abbey and Church
* * * * *
An excerpt from the beginning of the book:
MARY ARDEN
If, as is generally believed, all great men owe much to a mother, surely next to the one "highly favoured among women," the holy mother whom "all generations shall call blessed," the name of Mary Arden should be held in everlasting remembrance. Volumes might be filled with tributes to the immortal memory of her son; more were paid to him by his contemporaries than to any other sixteenth-century writer. Let us not forget, even at this remote period, how much the world owes to the mother of one who was the greatest of men ; the mother who possibly never fully realised the greatness of his genius, but who would discern, as is the manner of mothers, the other than ordinary mind of her boy.
Mary Arden was the youngest daughter of Robert Arden of Wilmcote, in the parish of Aston Cantlowe; of her mother not even the name is known. Her father, left a widower with seven daughters, took for his second wife, in 1550, Agnes Webbe, widow of one John Hill, who left her with one son and one daughter (this Agnes was probably sister to Alex. Webbe, who had married Robert Arden's daughter Margaret); and judging from the fact that her step-children are not even named in her will, it would seem as if but little cordiality existed between them and their father's second wife. This may possibly account in a measure for nothing being known of their own mother, only a noble-hearted woman would keep fresh in the minds of the children the name and memory of their dead mother.
Mary's father, Robert Arden, in spite of all that has been written to the contrary, is clearly proved to have descended from Walter Arden, of Park Hall, co. Warwick, so that on the "spindle side" William Shakespeare had in his veins the blood of those who had owned a great part of that county whose chief boast to-day is that it gave birth to the great poet, who reflects back to his ancestors a glory that can never be surpassed.
Robert Arden was evidently a man of wealth; the furnishing of the "halle" of his house being really above the average of a country gentleman's of that period. Mr. T. Wright, M. A., F .S. A., described the furniture of the "halle" in the manor-house of Croxdale, co. Durham, in the year 1571, as consisting of "one cupboard, one table, two buffet stools, and one chair; yet Salvin of Croxdale was looked upon as one of the principal gentry in the Palatinate." In Robert Arden's "halle" were to be found "two table bordes, three choyres, two fformes, one cubborde, two coshenes, three benches, one lytle table with shelves and two painted cloths." There were nine other painted cloths in the house; and in his widow's will the mention of two salts clearly points to her rank as being that of a gentlewoman.
Mary Arden, who was the youngest and evidently much loved daughter of Robert Arden, had thus ever been accustomed to comfortable surroundings in her father's home, amid all the sweet sights and sounds of country life. It has been conjectured that Mary may have lived at one time with her grandfather, Thomas Arden, at the Asbies, his house at Wilmcote, as she eventually owned that property, making her portion considerably larger than that of her sisters.
There was undoubtedly an early acquaintance between the Arden and the Shakespeare families, for Richard Shakespeare, of Snitterfield, believed to have been the poet's grandfather, held lands under Robert Arden; so Mary would not be a stranger when, leaving her country home, she came as a bride to her husband's house in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon. How little did she dream as she crossed its threshold that this very dwelling was to become in after years a place of pilgrimage for people of almost every nationality—the literary shrine of the world!
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