Dark Sweet Wanton
first published 1979 Hodder & Stoughton General Division, 1979 hardcover 256 pages
Dark Sweet Wanton is the story of Mary Fytton, the woman believed to be the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's sonnets. Will Shakespeare is just one of a large cast of strongly drawn characters to appear in this novel, which opens with Mary's (Mall's) early life as the unhappy daughter of a Cheshire squire. Mall's subsequent elevation to lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I brings her to London and opens her eyes to the intr...
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