Susanna Shakespeare : Shakespeare's Daughter & Doctor John Hall

One can find plenty of literature on the life and works of William Shakespeare.

Much less if any can be found and read about his three children.

This is the first book about the married life of his eldest daughter Susanna with her husband doctor John Hall, a general practitioner in the Stratford-upon-Avon of those days.

Through the eyes of Susanna and with her husbands original notes on his patients we get acquainted with the family, neighbours and friends of her famous father.

In this was we get to know William Shakespeare more as a family- and townsman.

All the persons mentioned did actually exist. From Susannas point of view we learn about the hard work involved in running a doctors practice in the first half of the seventeenth century.

The book intertwines the cases of Halls patients with an account of what often tumultuous daily life in Stratford, all based on true facts.

With the remarkable dates of her two marriages Eliza, only child of Susanna and John Hall, honoured definitely her dear parents and her beloved famous grandfather.