Delia Bacon

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1811 – 1859

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Who was Delia Bacon?

Delia Salter Bacon was an American writer of plays and short stories and a sister of the Congregational minister Leonard Bacon. She is best known today for her work on the Shakespeare authorship question.

She promoted the theory that the plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written by a group of men, including Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh and others.

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Born
Feb 2, 1811
Tallmadge
Siblings
Lived in
  • Akron
Died
Sep 2, 1859
Hartford
Resting place
Grove Street Cemetery

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on July 23, 2013

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