Delia Bacon

Delia Salter Bacon ( born February 2, 1811 in Tallmadge, Ohio; † September 2, 1859 in Hartford, Connecticut) was an American teacher and author. She was known for her monograph on the question of Shakespeare authorship debate ( supporter of Francis Bacon theory, without being related to him, a random name similarity ).

She worked as a teacher in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York until 1852. During this time she wrote a book Tales of the Puritans (1831 ), a play The Bride of Fort Edward ( 1839), based on the story of Jane M'Crea and is partially written in blank verse, and The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded ( 1857).

She was one of the early skeptics about the identity of William Shakespeare from Stratford as the author of great works - canon. For this, she spent several years with studies in England, where she became friends with Thomas Carlyle and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Within the authorship debate, she represented the theory that Shakespeare attributed works would have to be written not by an individual but by a group including Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh and Edmund Spenser. She was morbidly obsessed by her idea at the end, and left England with a diagnosis of mental illness. She died in Hartford, Connecticut and is in the cemetery at " Grove Street Cemetery " in New Haven, Connecticut buried.

Her nephew, Theodore Bacon, wrote a biography about them Delia Bacon: A Sketch (Boston, 1888) and a chapter, Recollections of a Gifted Woman, in Nathaniel Hawthorne 's Our Old Home (Boston, 1863).

Writings

• Delia Bacon: The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded (Hardcover) indypublish.com 2007, ISBN 1-4353-0197-8
• Delia Bacon: The Bride of Fort Edward ( Founded on to Incident of the Revolution ) Indypublish.com (August 2007), ISBN 1-4353-2242-8