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Dark Aemilia: A Novel of Shakespeare's Dark Lady
Dark Aemilia A Novel of Shakespeare's Dark Lady Author:Sally O'Reilly TALE OF SORCERY AND PASSION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON?WHERE WITCHES HAUNT WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND HIS DARK LADY, THE PLAYWRIGHT'S MUSE AND ONE TRUE LOVE — The daughter of a Venetian musician, Aemilia Bassano came of age in Queen Elizabeth?s Royal Court. The queen?s favorite, she develops a passion for learning, maturing into a young woman kno... more »wn not only for her beauty but also her sharp mind and quick tongue. When Aemilia becomes the mistress of Lord Hunsdon, she fears her mind will languish?until she crosses paths with an impetuous playwright named William Shakespeare and begins an impassioned affair, united by a love of poetry but doomed by fate.
A decade later, the queen is dead, and Aemilia Bassano is now Aemilia Lanyer, fallen from favor and married to a fool. Like the rest of London, she fears the plague. And when her son Henry takes ill, Aemilia will do anything to save him, even if it means seeking help from her estranged lover, Will?or worse, making a pact with the Devil himself.
In rich, vivid detail, Sally O?Reilly breathes life into England?s first female poet, a mysterious woman nearly forgotten by history. Dark Ameilia?full of passion, devilish schemes, and dark magic?is a tale worthy of the Bard.« less