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
Jann Arden 2014, through Universal Music Canada. In October 2015, Arden released her fourteenth and first Christmas album, "A Jann Arden Christmas". In addition to her music, she is also a writer of memoirs: "If I Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You?" (2002), "I'll Tell You One Damn Thing, and That's All I Know!" (2004), "Falling Backwards" (2011) and "Feeding My Mother" (2017). In 2018, CTV announced that Arden will star in "Jann", a mockumentary comedy television series loosely based on her own life, in the 2018-19 television season. Arden is a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism. Arden