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Later scholars have not pursued these assertions.

Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells comment that " her star waned when she was discovered to have been fair ".

There is no hint in her authenticated biography that she was acquainted with Shakespeare.

William Kempe, who was a clown in Shakespeare's company, dedicated his Nine Daies Wonder to Mistress Anne ( perhaps an error for Mary ) Fitton, Maid of Honor to Elizabeth ; and there is a sonnet addressed to her in an anonymous volume, A Womans Woorth defended against all the Men in the World.