Dame Ethel Mary Reader Shakespear DBE (née Wood; 17 Yuli 1871 - 17 Janairu 1946) ta kasance ƙwararren masanin ilimin ƙasa Bature, ma'aikacin gwamnati kuma mai ba da taimako. An haife ta a Biddenham, Bedfordshire, 'yar wani malami. Ta yi karatu a Makarantar Sakandare ta Bedford da Kwalejin Newnham, Cambridge (1891-95), ta kammala karatun digiri a kimiyyar halitta. A cikin 1896 ta zama mataimakiyar Charles Lapworth a Kwalejin Mason (wanda daga baya ya zama Jami'ar Birmingham), kuma ta fara shirye-shiryen sanannun aikinta, British Graptolites, tare da abokiyar kwalejinta Gertrude Elles. Ita ce ke da alhakin misalai na musamman. Wannan monograph ɗin zai zama daidaitaccen aikin bincike na burbushin halittu na shekaru masu yawa. Ta buga wasu ayyuka da dama kuma an zaɓe ta a matsayin Fellow of the Geological Society a 1919. A cikin 1920 ta sami Medal Murchison don aikinta akan monograph. A cikin 1906 ta sami DSc daga Jami'ar Birmingham, kuma ba da daɗewa ba ta auri Gilbert Arden Shakespear, malamin kimiyyar lissafi a jami'a wanda ta haɗu da shi a Cambridge.