The Dark Lady's Mask

by Mary Sharratt

Book Overview

Shakespeare in Love meets Shakespeare's Sister in this novel of England's first professional woman poet and her collaboration and love affair with William Shakespeare. London, 1593. Aemilia Bassano Lanier is beautiful and accomplished, but her societal conformity ends there. She frequently cross-dresses to escape her loveless marriage and to gain freedoms only men enjoy, but a chance encounter with a ragged, little-known poet named Shakespeare changes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544300769
• ISBN13: 9780544300767
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"