Anne Hathaway
Anne Shakespeare (née Hathaway) was the wife of the famous playwright- William Shakespeare, who wrote plays and poems such as Sonnet 18 and Romeo and Juliet. She was seven years senior to her husband but outlived him also by seven years. Anne also provided Shakespeare with three children. The actual date of Anne's birth is unknown, yet if you look on her gravestone it gives her name and her age at death, which was sixty- seven. Therefore, we can estimate her year of birth as 1556 as she passed away in 1623. Her father was a farmer called Richard Hathaway and she was the eldest of three children produced by his first wife. Master Hathaway went on to marry a woman named Joan, after the death of Anne's mother, with whom he had five more children. When Master Hathaway died in 1581, the family stayed living in the house, which is now known as Anne Hathaway's cottage, in Shottery one mile away from the town of Stratford- Upon- Avon in which she lived later on in her life w...