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Joan Shakespeare (married name Joan Hart; baptised 15 April 1569 – buried 4 November 1646) was the sister of William Shakespeare. She is the only member of the family whose known descendants continue down to the present day.
Shakespeare’s mother was born Mary Arden in 1537, the youngest of eight daughters of Robert Arden. Mary’s family had a distinguished history and could trace itself back to the Norman Conquest.
Aug 8, 2024 · Ramie Targoff begins Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance (Knopf, 2024), her fascinating exploration of four female writers of the English Renaissance, not with a reference to a 16th-century woman, but to Virginia Woolf.
At the end of A Room of One’s Own, Woolf comes back to Shakespeare’s imagined sister, seeing her thwarted career revived by modern women. “She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed,” Woolf writes.
Mar 25, 2024 · Targoff’s latest book is called Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance, and it’s a group biography of four great women writers who were Shakespeare’s contemporaries—whose work Woolf likely never read.
Shakespeare’s sister, Margaret, was born in 1562. she lived for one year, probably dying of the Black Death. The fourth of Shakespeare’s sisters was Anne, who was born in 1571 when the Bard was seven years old.
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Mar 18, 2017 · Brother: Gilbert Shakespeare. In 1566 Gilbert Shakespeare was born. It is thought that he was named after Gilbert Bradley who was a burgess of Stratford and was a Glover like John Shakespeare. It is believed that Gilbert would have attended school with William, being two years younger than him.
