Shakespeare's woman

Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, lived in a farmhouse. A goal for most woman from Anne's social upbringing was marriage. She met William when she was 26, still single at such an age is unusual. She wasn't single for long because the young Anne became pregnant before they were married. Chaste she was not! She is said to have been domestically educated and illiterate. So ironic that a man who is known to have created all these amazing literary works of ART was married to a woman that would likely not have been able to read what he wrote.

She likely wondered if her husband was faithful to her. The talk was that in his many travels he was having affairs. However a woman like Anne seems lucky to have gotten married to someone like William Shakespeare at all. Maybe he was having affairs and she was willing to overlook them, knowing that she was married and not frowned upon by society being an old maid.