Half-Sisters
Subtitle: Topographical Links to William Shakespeare
Edition: First: 26 copies
Series: abstract 10
Publisher: Letters
Published: 2009 [26 November]
Place of publication: Toronto
Format: sewn pamphlet
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Shakespeare; Edward de Vere; Barbican; Windsor House
Work titles: Elizabethan studies
Description: Disclosure of a new discovery: that the Mountjoy premises at Monkwell and Silver Streets in London, in which William Shaksper of Stratford-on-Avon resided (1602-4), was next door to the residence of Edward de Vere's half-sister Katherine Lady Windsor, wife of Edward Third Baron Windsor (1533-75); and that Windsor House (formerly Neville's Inn or Westmorland Place) was a scant 300 yards south of the manor of Edward de Vere's younger sister, Mary Lady Willoughby de Eresby, on whose property the second quarto of The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth was produced in 1617 (by Barnard Alsop), and directly adjacent to the Jaggard printshop responsible for production of the First Folio of William Shakespeare (1621-3). These discoveries constitute the first direct connection between Edward de Vere (putative author of the works of Shakespeare) and both the man from Stratford and what conventional scholars consider his literary remains. Includes a thumbnail genealogical index of five lines: Bertie & Willoughby; Dudley & Sutton; Vavasour; Vere; & Windsor. Reproducing four details from the reconstructed map of London published under the guidance of Mary Lobel, by the Historic Towns Trust, London (1989). Revised 7 December 09 (15 copies) and 16 December 09 (23 copies). The text is available at http://www.archive.org/details/Half-sistersTopographicalLinksToWilliamShakespeare.