Delia Salter Bacon (1811 - 1859)

Born 2 Feb 1811 in Tallmadge, Ohio, United States

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Died 2 Sep 1859 at age 48 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Delia Bacon is Notable.

Delia Salter Bacon was born in 1811. She passed away in 1859.

From Thomas W. Baldwin's 1915 "Bacon Genealogy" p. 236 (cited and linked below):

"Delia Salter [Bacon], born Feb. 2, 1811, in Tallmadge, Ohio. She was brought up in Hartford, Conn., in the family of Thomas Scott Williams, Chief Justice of Connecticut, having been named for Mrs. Williams, an intimate friend of her mother. For a number of years she taught school. In 1831 she took up publishing and afterwards delivered historical lectures in many eastern cities.

"The work for which she was most widely known was that regarding the authorship of Shakespeare. In 1852 disbelief in the authorship of Shakespeare took possession of her mind and she devoted the rest of her life to the advocacy of her theory. She sought to prove that Lord Bacon jointly with other writers wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare.

"In 1857 she issued in London and Boston her Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded.

"Among her books were Tales of the Puritans and The Bride of Fort Edward.

"She died in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 2, 1859."

Sources

• Bacon, Theodore. Delia Bacon: A Biographical Sketch (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888).

• Bacon, Leonard. Sketch of the Rev. David Bacon (Boston: Congregational Publishing Society, 1876)

• Baldwin, Thomas W. Michael Bacon of Dedham, 1640 and His Descendants (Cambridge, Mass.: T. Baldwin, 1915). See Family Group and short biography of Delia Salter Bacon, p. 236.

• ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA - Delia Salter Bacon

• Find A Grave: #6652291

• Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863). See "Recollections of a Gifted Woman," p. 106 and ff. Hawthorne's description of a visit to Miss Delia Bacon in Stratford begins on p. 122 and continues with discussion of her theory about Shakespeare's authorship.

• Peet, Louis Harman. Handy Book of American Authors (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1907). See p. 287 "Bacon, Delia Salter, born Feb. 2, 1811, at Tallmage, Ohio; died Sept. 2, 1859, at Hartford, Conn."

• Wikipedia: Delia Bacon

• Wikipedia: Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship

• Wikipedia: Shakespeare authorship question

• Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, ed. Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 1 (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887). See Vol. I, pp. 129-130, Bacon, David (includes reference to children Leonard and Delia Bacon on p. 130).

See Also:

• New England Historical Society - Delia Bacon, Driven Crazy By William Shakespeare

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• Name Delia Salter Bacon
• Gender F (Female)
• Birth Date 2 févr. 1811 (2 Feb 1811)
• Birth Place Tallmadge, Summit (Tallmadge), Ohio, USA
• Death Date 2 sept. 1859 (2 Sep 1859)
• Death Place Hartford, Hartford (Hartford), Connecticut, USA
• Father David Bacon
• Mother Alice Parks

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Works by or about Delia Bacon

Bacon, Delia. Tales of the Puritans (New Haven: A.H. Maltby, 1831).

Bacon, Delia. The Bride of Fort Edward: Founded on an Incident of the Revolution (New York: S. Colman, 1839)

Bacon, Delia. "William Shakespeare and His Plays: An Enquiry Concerning Them" Putnam's Magazine, 1856, Vol. 7 Issue No. XXXVII, p. 1.

Bacon, Delia. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspeare Unfolded with a Preface by Nathaniel Hawthorne (London: Groombridge & Sons, 1857).

Carrell, Jennifer Lee. Interred with their Bones, aka The Shakespeare Secret (2007) - Wikipedia