HC Gets Greer Book on Ann Hathaway

by Matthew Thornton -- Publishers Weekly, 7/10/2007 7:37:00 AM

HarperCollins has acquired U.S. rights to a new book by Germaine Greer, titled Shakespeare's Wife; Jonathan Burnham and Terry Karten made the deal with Emma Parry at Fletcher & Parry. The deal also includes U.S. rights to Greer's revolutionary first book, The Female Eunuch, which Harper Perennial will publish to coincide with hardcover pub of Shakespeare's Wife in spring 2008.

In Shakespeare's Wife, Greer will reclaim Ann Hathaway from generations of scholarly neglect and misogyny, and her reconstruction of Hathaway's life and the daily lives of Elizabethan women will also offer readers a new way into the world of Shakespeare, his plays and sonnets, and an original sense of the man himself.

The Australian-born Greer is also the author of Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility and The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause.

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