The dark lady's mask

By Mary Sharratt

Subjects: Man-woman relationships, fiction, English Women poets, Fiction, historical, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, fiction, Authors, fiction, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Fiction, biographical

Description: Disguising herself as a man to escape her loveless marriage and enjoy the exclusive freedoms of men, aspiring writer Aemilia Lanier falls in love and runs away with ragged poet William Shakespeare, with whom she secretly writes plays that bring him fame years later.