Word: fitton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WORCERSTER, Mass., April 27--Holy Cross pitcher Joe Liebler held the Crimson to four hits and collected three himself, as the Crusaders broke the varsity nine's eight game winning streak, 6-5, on a frostbitten Fitton Field here today...
...perennially powerful Holy Cross baseball squad will attempt to snap the Crimson's eight-game winning streak in Worcester today. Weather permitting, the non-league contest will begin on the Crusaders' Fitton Field...
...great satisfaction to me, and I'm sure to other Shakespeareans, to learn in your April 5 issue that Mary Fitton was the "dark lady of Shakespeare's sonnets," whom we've been trying for years to identify...
...dark lady was a married woman who broke her bed vow (Sormet 152), but Mary Fitton was single when she was William Herbert's [later the Earl of Pembroke-1580-1630] mistress ... He refused to wed her . . . After bearing three illegitimate children to three different men, she married rich and died respectable. But-alas for the supporters of the Fitton-Herbert theory-Mary inconveniently turns out, from the evidence of her portraits, to have been not dark but fair, with light brown hair and gray eyes. For hair, Shakespeare's dark lady had "black wires"; for eyes, "pitch...
...Newport, and a date, April 6, 1565. But when Keen investigated the signature, he found that it belonged to a Sir Richard Newport who had lived in Shropshire, some distance from Stratford. Nevertheless, Newport's family tree revealed some promising leads. He was related to a family named Fitton (Mary Fitton was the "Dark Lady" of the Sonnets), which in turn was related to the Houghtons of Lancashire. Sir Alexander Houghton, it seemed, kept a group of "playeres," and among these was a young man called William Shakeshafte. Keen's next question...