AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 12, ISSUE 332, SEPTEMBER 20, 1828***


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VOL. 12, NO. 332.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1828. [PRICE 2d.




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ANNE HATHAWAY'S COTTAGE.

[Illustration: Anne Hathaway's Cottage.]


This is another of Mr. Rider's beautiful "Views to Illustrate the Life of
SHAKSPEARE,"[1]--it being the exterior of the cottage in which the poet's
wife (whose maiden name was _Hathaway_) is said to have resided with her
parents, in the village of Shottery, about a mile from Stratford-upon-Avon.

    [1] Merridew and Rider, Warwick and Leamington, and Goodhugh,
    Oxford-street, London.

Neither the exterior nor interior of this humble abode, says Mr. Rider,
appears to have been subjected to any renovating process; and as there
exists