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The writers behind this newsletter.
Our goal is the advancement of learning with reference to the social, political, and literary history in the 16th & 17th centuries and the authorship of the works that appeared under the name William Shakespeare.
In 2006 I published “Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?” about the possibility that Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke, probably wrote the works attributed to the man named William Shakespeare.
Director of Research of the SAT, Author of Shakespeare: The Evidence and the Coursera MOOC Introduction to Who Wrote Shakespeare
Administrator for the Shakespearean Authorship Trust. Please email [email protected] if you have any admin queries.
I am a retired high school physics teacher, living in Southern Oregon
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