Clara Longworth de Chambrun writes, "None who hears the cry of remorse and anguish in Shakespeare's poems can doubt that their author traversed an period of great moral suffering. The serene atmosphere of his later work seems to attest that he came through the fire tempered and ripened. The facts also sustain this hypothesis and explain his Life's Philosophy. 'Men must endure their going hence, even as their coming hither, ripeness is all.'" De Chambrun describes how the W.H. theory originated. Thomas Thorpe, a "pirate publisher", published a volume of Shakespeare's sonnets with the following inscription, "To the onlie begetter of these sonnets, Mr. W.H." De Chambrun criticizes the initials and she does not believe in following the Herbertist (William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke in 1623) theory; rather she writes of "graver critics" seeing the letters standing for Will Hall, a trafficker of manuscripts and a favorite of Thorpe, the "Piratical Publisher". De Chambrun continues, if the Earl of Pembroke, William Herbert, was Mr. W.H., then the critics who believe the dark lady to be Mary Fitton (known mistress) would be incorrect, because Mary Fitton was a blonde.