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  Delia Bacon Biography and Summary
Delia Bacon (2 February 1811-2 September 1859), a leading proponent of the Baconian theory, was born in Tallmadge, Ohio.
Delia Salter Bacon--who was a friend of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne--believed that William Shakespeare's plays were the work of Francis Bacon and his cadre of literary friends.
Delia Bacon, a sister of Leonard Bacon, (February 2, 1811- September 2, 1859), is best known for her work on Shakespearean authorship.
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  Delia Bacon
Delia Bacon, a sister of Leonard Bacon, (February 2, 1811 - September 2, 1859), is best known for her work on Shakespearean authorship.
She was born in Tallmadge, Ohio and became a teacher in schools in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, and then, until about 1852, conducted in various eastern cities,, classes for women in history and literature by methods she devised.
Bacon intended to prove that the plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written by a coterie of men, including Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh and Edmund Spenser, for the purpose of inculcating a philosophic system, for which they felt that they themselves could not afford to assume the responsibility.
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 Delia Bacon
Bacon (1811-59) imbibed from this milieu an ambition to excel in literature that it was bound to frustrate and an eventual belief in her own divine mission that it was certain to repudiate.
Delia Bacon knew Shakespeare through reading and teaching, not attending performances, and it was these didactic, library Shakespeares whom she could not reconcile with the historically known playwright.
Delia Bacon used the term "cipher" to mean a duplicitous discourse, the interpretation of which constituted her own extensive labors.
www.english.uiuc.edu /-people-/emeritus/baym/essays/delia_bacon.htm   (7564 words)

  
 Delia Bacon: Hawthorne's Last Heroine
Bacon, forty-five years old at the time, had been living in London for three years writing a book about the true authorship of the plays falsely attributed, as she believed, to William Shakespeare.
Bacon's letter, published a quarter-century later in her nephew's biography of her, reveals a visit of quite a different character from the one Hawthorne represented.
Bacon registers the presence of the hovering clerk as a check on her plans, not as a spur to action.
www.english.uiuc.edu /-people-/emeritus/baym/essays/last_heroine.htm   (3525 words)

  
 Delia Bacon
Delia Bacon, a New England schoolteacher and spinster, instigated the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy.
Delia Williams, was the wife of a prominent attorney and the daughter of Oliver Ellsworth, a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Delia's evaluation of Elizabethan literature was often profound, but her theory of joint authorship for the plays was lost in a maze of verbosity.
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 History of Doubt
Bacon is proposed as author of Shakespeare's plays in Putnam's Monthly (January issue) which contained "Shakespeare and His Plays: An Inquiry Concerning Them" by Delia Bacon, an American bearing no family relationship to Francis Bacon.
Publication of The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded, a book by Delia Bacon in which she considers the possibility of several authors.
Justice Wilberforce in a court case in England brought by the heirs of the deceased Evelyn May Hopkins, challenging the validity of her gift to the Francis Bacon Society, Inc., gave an opinion in favor of Miss Hopkins' intentions, indicating that "the evidence in favour of Shake-speare's authorship is quantitatively slight.
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 Brief Biographies of Jackson Era Characters (B)
Bacon, Delia Salter (Feb. 2, 1811 - Sept. 2, 1859)
At the age of 14, she spent a year in Catharine Beecher's Hartford Female Seminary, which accellerated her intellectual development, and probably lead to the sort of intense Calvinist conversion experience which Beecher (who struggled with her inability to have such an experience) promoted among her pupils.
Several contributions from Bacon; footnotes and passages of text, appear in the Autobiography of Lyman Beecher (largely the work of Beecher's children).
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 Google Search: /delia bacon
Delia Bacon was one of the earliest to speculate publicly
Bacon, Francis, Viscount Saint Alban (or Albans), Baron of...
Bacon, actually spent a lonely night by the tomb in September of 1856, shovel...
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(26) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, Febuary 8, 1828
On behalf of his father, David Rice, encloses his accounts with Delia Bacon’s bills and receipts and a note of the contents of her purse and writing case.
(318) Engraving of Leonard Bacon, “engraved for the Eclectic by J.J. Cade.
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 Delia Bacon
Delia Bacon (From a daguerrotype taken in May,1853)
If anyone is interested in a First Edition of Delia Bacon's Book, "The Philosophy of the Plays Unfolded" email me at
It is from 1857 and in Excellent condition
www.sirbacon.org /deliab.html   (37 words)

  
 The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare, Delia Bacon - Section 1 of 24 - Book Club/Books - ArcaMax Publishing
Finally, the author's researches led her to a point where she found the plays claimed for Lord Bacon and his associates,--not in a way that was meant to be intelligible in their own perilous times,--but in characters that only became legible, and illuminated, as it were, in the light of a subsequent period.
It is enough to say here, that he chanced to be honored with the patronage of _three_ of the most illustrious personages of the age in which he lived.
One was Sir Walter Raleigh, in whose service he was; one was the Lord Bacon, whose well nigh idolatrous admirer he appears also to have been; the other was _Shakspere_, to whose favor he appears to have owed so much.
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 Livres par Auteurs
Delia Bacon La Philosophie des Pièces de théâtre de Shakspere Unfolded
Francis Bacon Terminus Valerius; de l'interprétation de nature
Mary Schell Hoke Bacon Images Chaque Enfant devrait Savoir - UNE Sélection de l'Art Masterpieces du Monde pour les Jeunes Gens
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 Amazon.com: Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded: Books: Delia Bacon,Nathaniel Hawthorne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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Great Cryptogram, Part 2: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays by Ignatius Donnelly on page 76, and page 77
www.amazon.com /Philosophy-Plays-Shakspere-Unfolded-Delia/dp/0404004431   (844 words)

  
 Delia Bacon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Remains: Buried, Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT Gender: Female
American author Nathaniel Hawthorne lent Delia money to publish her elaborate theory regarding the plays of William Shakespeare -- that they were in fact written by the likes of Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh and Edmund Spenser, due to the politics of the time.
The idea was rightly met with derision, though there are conspiracy types to this day that believe them.
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