--- title: "Shakespeare's family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes — Cl…" description: "Read a free sample of Shakespeare's family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes at Publica Now — a public-domain classic ebook, readable online." canonical: "https://publica.now/creators/vito/works/shakespeares-family" --- Literary # Shakespeare's family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes [ V Vito ](https://publica.now/creators/vito) Follow $1.99 [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fshakespeares-family) Secure payment on Stripe. publica.now never sees your card. Share Link copied Format epub Published May 03, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![Shakespeare's family](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqnqmd67yspx4frc1j2dcffy/cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260930%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260930T132748Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=7230a122cfb1d303b4096b4468e032cea549188e199eb0516a1252e955f63801) ## About this work Shakespeare's family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes — a public-domain edition published by publica.now. Sample ## Take a look inside SHAKESPEARE'S FAMILY William Shakespeare from the Drocshout painting now in the Shakespeare Memorial Gallery at Stratford-on-Avon. SHAKESPEARE'S FAMILY BEING A Record of the Ancestors and Descendants of William Shakespeare WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ARDENS BY MRS. C. C. STOPES Author of "The Bacon-Shakespeare Question Answered," "Shakespeare's Warwickshire Contemporaries," "British Freewomen," Etc. LONDON ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. NEW YORK JAMES POTT & COMPANY 1901 PREFACE When I was invited to reprint in book-form the articles which had appeared in the Genealogical Magazine under the titles of "Shakespeare's Family" and the "Warwickshire Ardens," I carefully corrected them, and expanded them where expansion could be made interesting. Thus to the bald entries of Shakespeare's birth and burial I added a short life. Perhaps never before has anyone attempted to write a life of the poet with so little allusion to his plays and poems. My reason is clear; it is only the genealogical details of certain Warwickshire families of which I now treat, and it is only as an interesting Warwickshire gentleman that the poet is here included. Much of the chaotic nonsense that has of late years been written to disparage his character and contest his claims to our reverence and respect are based on the assumption that he was a man of low origin and of mean occupation. I deny any relevance to arguments based on such an assumption, for genius is restricted to no class, and we have a Burns as well as a Chaucer, a Keats as well as a Gower, yet I am glad that the result of my studies tends to prove that it is but an unfounded assumption. By the Spear-side his family was at least respectable, and by the Spindle-side his pedigree can be traced straight back to Guy of Warwick and… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fshakespeares-family) The sample continues in the full work. [ #classic ](/search?query=classic) [ #public-domain ](/search?query=public-domain) [ #library ](/search?query=library) ## Reviews No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. [Sign in to leave a review](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcreators%2Fvito%2Fworks%2Fshakespeares-family) No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. You might also like ## More like this [View all →](/marketplace?content_type=literary) [ ![Shakespeare's environment](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqqx2pgp6f5dk4z9xn7yc1er/cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260930%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260930T132748Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=10d659b2373d3f43cb5b316b08a500db4968fa92f7a5750adfc4d9134a81447e) Literary ### Shakespeare's environment Vito $1.99 11 ](/creators/vito/works/shakespeares-environment) $1.99 [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fshakespeares-family)