Sexuality of William Shakespeare for this. Six months after the marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, Susanna. Twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two years later. Stephen Greenblatt argues that Shakespeare probably initially loved Hathaway, supporting this by referring to the theory that a passage in one of his sonnets (Sonnet 145) plays off Anne Hathaway's name, saying she saved his life (writing "I hate from hate away she threw/And saved my life, saying 'not you.'"). Nevertheless, after only three years of marriage Shakespeare left his family and moved to London. Greenblatt suggests that this may imply that he felt trapped
Icelandic name novel by Halldór Laxness, "The Fish Can Sing" (1957), that had an admirable female character named Blær, meaning "light breeze", and had decided that if she had a daughter, she would name her Blær. A man named "Jón Einarsson" has a son named "Ólafur". Ólafur's last name will not be "Einarsson" like his father's; it will become "Jónsson", literally indicating that "Ólafur" is the son of "Jón" (Jóns + son). The same practice is used for daughters. Jón Einarsson's daughter "Sigríður"'s last name would not be "Einarsson" but "Jónsdóttir". Again, the name literally means "Jón's daughter" (Jóns + dóttir). In