Dark Lady's Mask

Author: Mary Sharratt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 "An absorbing bildungsroman that grapples with strikingly contemporary issues of gender and religious identification" - New York Times Book Review Aemilia Bassano Lanier is beautiful and accomplished, but her societal conformity ends there. She frequently cross-dresses to escape her loveless marriage and to gain freedoms only men enjoy-and then a chance encounter with a ragged, little-known poet named Shakespeare changes everything. The two outsiders strike up a literary bargain:...Read more