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Date
ca. 1882
Location
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Media format
Manuscript text
Extent
1 leaf
Language
English
Size
34 x 21 cm
Genre
Literary
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 230536
Folger call number: Y.d.985
Folger holdings ID: 279051
Accession Number: cs757
Folger call number: Y.d.985
Folger holdings ID: 279051
Accession Number: cs757
Summary
Autograph sonnet by A.C. Swinburne, enthroning Mary Shakespeare as the greatest of English dames and alleging that Shakespeare wrote Arden of Feversham using her maiden name in the title. Many revisions, with earlier lines being crossed out in favor of the final, published version
Notes
General notes
Caption title First line: Mother whose womb brought forth our man of men This poem was printed in Tristram of Lyonesse and other poems, 1882 Purchased from Maggs, 1917 (Cat. 362, no. 2964)
Also known as
Extended title: Arden of Feversham ca. 1882
Alternate titles: Mother whose womb brought forth our man of men
Alternate titles: Mother whose womb brought forth our man of men
Related names
author: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909
subject: Shakespeare, Mary, -1608
subject: Shakespeare, Mary, -1608