Arden of Feversham [manuscript], ca. 1882.

1 leaf ; 34 x 21 cm

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.

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).

Y.d.985

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