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2023.055.3.0257Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a cottage with a thatch roo and a fenced in yard. Above the image "T297 (Star)" is printed, below the image "3058T Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shottery, near Stratfor-on-Avon, Englang." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
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STRATFORD-ON-AVON, ENGLAND
In Richard Hathaway's substantial framhouse at Shottery, a mile from Stratford-on-Avon but within the parish of Stratfor, Shakespeare found his birde. Here in 1582, according to the parish records, "the Bard of Avon" took a license to marry Anne, when he was not yet nineteen and she was about seven years his senior. Three children were brn to them, Susannah and the twins, Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet, the boy, died at the age of eleven, but the two sisters lived and grew to womanhood in Stratford.
The Hathaway cottage remained in the family until 1838. In the latter part of the 19th Century it was taken over by the society organized for the purpose of preserving the memoirals of Shakespeare. Although it is about 400 years old, recent repairs have made it as strong as if new, and its original appearance has been carefully preserved. Even the garden has been carefully preserved, just as it was when Shakespeare came here a-wooing, and some of the very same old-fashiioned shrubs and flowers grow here still.
In the village of Stratford itself is the house where he was born, on April 23, 1564. It is a long, timbered, two-story building, looking to-day very much as it did in the 16th century. In a room on the ground floor, which was the warehouse of Shakespeare's father, a wool-stapler and glover, is a museum where are kept relics of the great poet-dramatist, such as his sitrrups and signet-ring, his cane and sword, some portraits, pricelss first editons of his plays, and his school-desk.
This is in Warwickshire, one of the loveliest counties in all England, and one of the richest in storied interest. Kenilworth, Warwick Castle, Guy's Cliff, are but a few of the historic shirnes within easy distance of Shakespeare's birthplace.
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