Ginnie's review
Shakespeare's Wife
by Germaine Greer
The fact we know Ann Hathaway's name has something to be said for it. The same is true for Frances Macdonald but do we know if people like Louis Sullivan, Henry David Thoreau or Walt Whitman had influential females in their lives? I'd bet on it. Women wear the pants in most families.
Wait, wasn't she Mr. Drysdale's secretary? The one who wore glasses, sensible shoes and had a thing for Jethro?
(oh. never mind)
Ginnie's review
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
Ginnie's review
bookshelves:
biography,
to-read,
women
Her husband blew her off in his will, leaving her only his "second best bed," and generations of (mostly male) critics haven't been much kinder to poor Ann Hathaway, aka Mrs. William Shakespeare. Riding to her rescue comes Germaine Greer, who, when she's not windmilling at demons, can be a redoubtable scholar. "Shakespeare's Wife" makes the provocative case that Hathaway was not the ball and chain of popular myth but an active and influential partner in her husband's life and work.
The fact we know Ann Hathaway's name has something to be said for it. The same is true for Frances Macdonald but do we know if people like Louis Sullivan, Henry David Thoreau or Walt Whitman had influential females in their lives? I'd bet on it. Women wear the pants in most families.
Wait, wasn't she Mr. Drysdale's secretary? The one who wore glasses, sensible shoes and had a thing for Jethro?(oh. never mind)