First published in 1901, Shakespeare's Family is Charlotte Carmichael Stopes's patient, pioneering reconstruction of the poet's origins, drawn from parish registers, heraldic records, and legal documents. Here is the complete, unabridged original text: the Shakespeares of Snitterfield, Mary Arden and her Wilmcote kin, John Shakespeare's rise and fall in Stratford, the hard-won grant of the family coat of arms, and the brothers, sisters, and descendants who carried the name forward. This edition presents every word of Stopes's classic study exactly as she wrote it, framed by a new introduction and light reader's notes that set her research in context for today's lovers of Shakespeare and social history. Warm, rigorous, and quietly revelatory, it restores the real household behind the world's most famous writer. Part of The Founding Texts Library.