Mary Shakespeare Mary Shakespeare Mary Shakespeare, née Arden, (c. 1537–1608) was the mother of William Shakespeare. She was the daughter of Wilmcote gentleman farmer Robert Arden, a cadet of the Arden family prominent in Warwickshire since before the Norman Conquest. She was the youngest of eight daughters, and when her father died in 1556 she inherited land at Snitterfield and Wilmcote from her father as a dowry. The house was left to her stepmother Agnes Hill. Richard Shakespeare, the father of John Shakespeare, was a tenant farmer on land owned by her father in Snitterfield. As the daughter of Richard's landlord, she
Mary Mannering died, a widow, on January 21, 1953 at Los Angeles. Mary Mannering Mary Mannering (April 29, 1876 – January 21, 1953) was an English actress, born in London. She studied for the stage under Hermann Vezin. She made her debut at Manchester in 1892 under her own name of Florence Friend. Born Florence Friend, she was the daughter of Richard Friend and Elise Whiting. She was induced by producer Daniel Frohman to come to New York in 1896. In the United States, she began playing as "Mary Mannering" (the maiden name of her father's mother). Mannering's American debut, in the