Spanning half a century of Elizabethan and Jacobean history and sweeping from the lowest reaches of society to the royal court, this richly textured novel tells the real story of Shakespeare in love. Two later novels overtly marketed and designed for an adult female readership, Karen Harpers Mistress Shakespeare (2009) and Arliss Ryans The Secret. 'This intoxicating, fictionalized memoir of Shakespeare in love is a romantic roller coaster rich with vivid details reminiscent of. Mistress Shakespeare was selected by Womans Day Magazine in June 2009 as one of the Best 10 Summer Beach Reads. Persecution and plague, insurrection and inferno, friends and foes, even executions of those they hold dear, bring Anne's heartrending story to life. Review Shakespeares Mistress by Karen Harper Anne Whateley, is a young woman who was born in the same year as William Shakespeare. Website of Karen Harper, author of contemporary romantic suspense, historical and mystery novels. Often at odds, always in love, the couple sells Will's first plays and, as he climbs to theatrical power in Elizabeth's England, they fend off fierce competition from rival London dramatists, ones as treacherous as they are talented. From rural Stratford-upon-Avon to teeming London, the passionate pair struggles to stay solvent and remain safe from Elizabeth I's campaign to hunt down secret Catholics, of whom Shakespeare is rumored to be a part. Mistress Shakespeare audiobook, by Karen Harper. A delicious and intriguing historical novel about the woman who was William Shakespeare’s secret wife by New York Times-bestselling author, Karen Harper.In Mistress Shakespeare, Elizabethan beauty Anne Whateley reveals intimate details of her dangerous, daring life and her great love, William Shakespeare. The clandestine Whateley/Shakespeare match is a meeting of hearts and heads that no one - not even Queen Elizabeth or her spymasters - can destroy. Mistress Shakespeare, Elizabethan beauty Anne Whateley reveals intimate details of her dangerous, daring life and her great love, William Shakespeare.Īs historical records show, Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton is betrothed to Will just days before he is forced to wed the pregnant Anne Hathaway of Shottery.

Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper