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Clare Asquith (Mary Clare Pollen) was born on 2 June, 1951 in United Kingdom, is a British academic and writer born 1951. Discover Clare Asquith's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
| Popular As |
Mary Clare Pollen |
| Occupation |
Independent scholar |
| Age |
72 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
| Born |
2 June, 1951 |
| Birthday |
2 June |
| Birthplace |
United Kingdom |
| Nationality |
United Kingdom
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She is a member of famous academic with the age 72 years old group.
Clare Asquith Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Clare Asquith's Husband?
Her husband is Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (m. 1978)
| Family |
| Parents |
Not Available |
| Husband |
Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (m. 1978) |
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Clare Asquith Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Clare Asquith worth at the age of 72 years old? Clare Asquith’s income source is mostly from being a successful academic . She is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Clare Asquith's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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Not Available |
| Source of Income |
academic |
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Mary Clare Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (née Pollen; 2 June 1951) is an English independent scholar and author of Shadowplay: the Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare, in which she posited that Shakespeare was a covert Catholic, whose works contain coded language used by the Catholic underground, particularly England's Jesuits, but also appealed to the monarchy for toleration.
Her book was the first to claim the existence of such a code as a subtext in Shakespeare.
Asquith's work was hailed by some, including the Catholic writer Piers Paul Read, as "dramatic, important" and "painstaking scholarship".
However, it was poorly reviewed by Dr David Womersley, Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, who deemed it "a ridiculous book".
Her second book, Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny, follows the same themes as her first, focusing on the poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. This was reviewed favorably by Michael Thomas Barry in the New York Journal of Books, as "a must read for anyone interested in the study and interpretation of Shakespearian era politics or literary criticism," but unfavorably by James Shapiro in the New York Review of Books: "Asquith blithely ignores every fact that might qualify or undermine her claims. And because she prosecutes her case so skillfully, there's no way for general readers to distinguish solid arguments from fantastic ones."
Asquith has lectured on Shakespeare in the UK and in North America.
She lives in Somerset with her husband, the former diplomat Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, whom she married in 1978.
Her ideas on the 16th-century code were first raised while observing coded messages in Soviet dissident plays while her husband served as a diplomat in Moscow during the Cold War, and were first published in The Shakespeare Newsletter and The Times Literary Supplement.
Lady Oxford was born Mary Clare Pollen, as the eldest of the five children of the architect Francis Pollen and Marie Therese Sheridan (later Viscountess Sidmouth, wife of the 7th peer).
