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The Dark Lady's Mask

by Mary Sharratt

Narrator Jilly Bond

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Length 15 hours 12 minutes

Language English

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Aemilia Bassano Lanier is beautiful and accomplished, but her societal conformity ends there. She frequently cross-dresses to escape her loveless marriage and gain freedoms only men enjoy, but a chance encounter with a ragged, little-known poet named Shakespeare changes everything. They leave plague-ridden London for Italy, where they begin secretly writing comedies. Their Italian idyll, though, cannot last and their collaborative affair comes to a devastating end. Will gains fame and fortune for their plays back in London and years later publishes the sonnets mocking his former muse. Not one to stand by in humiliation, Aemilia takes up her own pen in her defense and in defense of all women. The Dark Lady's Mask gives voice to a real Renaissance woman.

Fiction Romance Historical Fiction

Mary Sharratt is an American writer who has lived in Germany and England for over two decades. The winner of the 2005 WILLA Literary Award and a Minnesota Book Award Finalist, she has also written several acclaimed novels including Summit Avenue, The Real Minerva, The Vanishing Point, and the Nautilus award-winning Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen. She is the co-editor of the subversive-fiction anthology Bitch Lit, which celebrates strong women who break all the rules.

Jilly Bond studied English & drama at Bristol University. She has more than thirty years of experience acting on stage, for television and film, and for radio and audiobooks. When not acting or voice acting, she can be found teaching, directing, or producing. The critically acclaimed winner of two Earphones Awards, she has recorded more than a hundred audiobooks.