Joan Alleyn Religious Art nevertheless

nevertheless

in secret and against the wishes of his family

of passers-by seeing it in a window and mistaking it for a real flesh and blood girl

Formerly catalogued as a female saint (Veronica

Joan Alleyn Religious Art neverthelessJoan Woodward (c. 1573 1623), step daughter of the theatrical manager Philip Henslowe, married in 1592 Edward Alleyn as his first wife. She was burried in the old chapel at Dulwich with a stone inscribed: 'Here lyeth in Hope of Resurrection, the Body of Joane, the religious and loving wife of Edward Alleyn Esqr. Founder of this Colledge, who departed this mortal Life the 28th of June 1623, being in the 51 year of Her Age.'