History of the Shakespeare authorship question others joined together to create the Shakespeare Fellowship, an organisation devoted to promote discussion and debate on the authorship question but endorsing no particular candidate. Since then a great many candidates have been put forward, including Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway, his supposed girlfriend Anne Whateley, and numerous scholars, aristocrats and poets. New candidates are regularly put forward, such as Mary Sidney (proposed in 1931), Edward Dyer (proposed in 1943), William Nugent (proposed in 1978) and Henry Neville (proposed in 2005). Some candidates have been promoted by single authors, others have gathered several published supporters. Sidney in particular has been promoted
David Hathaway the Eastern Bloc countries. When the communist Eastern Bloc countries collapsed, in the 1990s he continued his work. In 1995, Hathaway launched his "Prophetic Vision" magazine. He became a widower in 2014. His wife, Zena, passed peacefully into the presence of the Lord on December 19th, 2014. In recent years Hathaway has been working in Israel to help Holocaust survivors from the Russian and former Eastern Bloc countries, both spiritually and materially. Hathaway married his wife Zena Margaret Anne Corps on 27 April 1955. Zena soon began to help her husband in his evangelistic efforts and became part of his