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42: 910: 431:, himself among the most outspoken of 19th century anti-Stratfordians, she was "the sweetest, eloquentist, grandest woman…that America has so far produced….and, of course, very unworldly, just in all ways such a woman as was calculated to bring the whole literary pack down on her, the orthodox, cruel, stately, dainty, over-fed literary pack – worshipping tradition, unconscious of this day’s honest sunlight." 822: 193:, while her own formal education ended when she was fourteen. She became a teacher in schools in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, and then, until about 1852, became a distinguished professional lecturer, conducting, in various cities in the eastern United States, classes for women in history and literature by methods she devised. At age 20, in 1831, she published her first book, 1021: 469:, and the first to argue that the plays anticipated the political upheavals England experienced in the mid-seventeenth century. But Delia Bacon couldn't stop at that point. Nor could she concede that the republican ideas she located in the plays circulated widely at the time and were as available to William Shakespeare as they were to Walter Raleigh or Francis Bacon. 315:. Delia Bacon was influenced by these currents. Like many of her time, she approached Shakespearean drama as philosophical masterpieces written for a closed aristocratic society of courtiers and monarchs, and found it difficult to believe they were written either with commercial intent or for a popular audience. Puzzled by the gap between the bare facts of 423:
Emerson, who greatly admired Bacon, and who was skeptical of her claim, wrote that she would need "enchanted instruments, nay alchemy itself, to melt into one identity these two reputations", and retrospectively remarked that America had only two "producers" during the 1850s, "Our wild Whitman, with
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How can we undertake to account for the literary miracles of antiquity, while this great myth of the modern ages still lies at our own door, unquestioned? This vast, magical, unexplained phenomenon which our own times have proceed under our own eyes, appears to be, indeed, the only thing which our
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For too long critics have depicted as a tragicomic figure, blindly pursuing a fantastic mission in obscurity and isolation, only to end in silence and madness….this is not to say that the stereotype is without basis. On the contrary, her sad story established an archetype for the story of the
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real inspiration but checked by titanic abdomen; and Delia Bacon, with genius, but mad and clinging like a tortoise to English soil." Though he was intrigued by her insights into the plays, he grew skeptical of the 'magical cipher' of which Bacon wrote without ever producing evidence for it.
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James Shapiro interprets her theory both in terms of the cultural tensions of her historical milieu, and as consequential on an intellectual and emotional crisis that unfolded as she both broke with her Puritan upbringing and developed a deep confidential relationship with a fellow lodger,
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modern rationalism is not to be permitted to meddle with. For, here the critics themselves still veil their faces, filling the air with mystic utterances which seem to say, that to this shrine at least, for the footstep of the common reason and the common sense, there is yet no admittance.
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little clique of disappointed and defeated politicians who undertook to head and organize popular opposition against the government, and were compelled to retreat from that enterprise.. .Driven from one field, they showed themselves in another. Driven from the open field, they fought in
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Had she limited her argument to these points instead of conjoining it to an argument about how Shakespeare couldn't have written them, there is little doubt that, instead of being dismissed as a crank and a madwoman, she would be hailed today as the precursor of the
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Delia Bacon withdrew from public life and lecturing in early 1845, and began to research intensively a theory she was developing over the authorship of Shakespeare's works, which she mapped out by October of that year. However a decade was to pass before her book
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at Hartford, Connecticut. According to her nephew, Theodore Bacon, she had been seized by a "violent mania" while in England, and had been "removed to an excellent private asylum for a small number of insane persons" at
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Shakespeare authorship at large – or at least one element of it: an otherworldly pursuit of truth that produces gifts for a world that is indifferent or hostile to them.
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by Bacon's brother Leonard for "dishonorable conduct," but was acquitted in a 12–11 vote. Public opinion compelled Bacon to leave New Haven for Ohio, while
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had in fact survived in the form of the plays attributed to Shakespeare. Delia Bacon argued that the great plays were the collective effort of a:
319:'s life and his vast literary output, she intended to prove that the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written by a coterie of men, including 41: 836: 168: 386: 1126: 390: 1121: 879: 401:'s reading, a "revolutionary agenda" that consisted in upturning the myths of America's founding fathers and the Puritan heritage. 1267: 1373: 1327: 1010: 998: 967: 121: 311:, the deification of Shakespeare's genius, and a widespread, almost hyperbolic veneration for the philosophical genius of 477:(Boston, 1888), and Nathaniel Hawthorne included an appreciative chapter, "Recollections of a Gifted Woman", in his book 408:. However, Emerson assisted her in publishing her first essay on the Shakespearean question in the January 1856 issue of 320: 125: 766:
Cited in Paul A. Nelson, “Walt Whitman on Shakespeare,” Shakespeare Oxford Society Newsletter, Fall 1992 (28: 4A), 2.
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Bacon's skeptical attitude towards the orthodox view of Shakespearean authorship invoked contempt of many, such as
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In 1836, Bacon moved to New York, and became an avid theatre-goer. She met the leading Shakespearean actress
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Shakespeare and the Lawyers, O. Hood Phillips, Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 1972 (2005 reprint), p. 185
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The Shakespeare Controversy: An Analysis of the Claimants to Authorship, and Their Champions and Detractors
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Bacon's research in Boston, New York, and London led to the publication of her major work on the subject,
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One recent assessment echoes the favorable view of Bacon held by Emerson, Hawthorne, and Whitman:
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can be found at the Folger Shakespeare Library: 323 items (2 boxes), Folger MS Y.c.2599 (1-323)
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Shakespeare and the American Nation, Kim C. Sturgess, Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 179
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William Shakespeare: A Literary Biography, Karl Elze, George Bell & Sons, 1888, p. 269
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soon after, and persuaded her to take the lead role in a play she was writing, partly in
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James S. Shapiro argues that her political reading of the plays, and her insistence on
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convinced many of the impropriety of their relationship. MacWhorter was brought to
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anonymously, consisting of three long stories on colonial life. In 1832, she beat
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for the wilds of Ohio. The venture quickly collapsed, and the family returned to
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Her theory proposed that the missing fourth part of Francis Bacon's unfinished
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Delia Bacon, "William Shakespeare and His Plays: An Inquiry Concerning Them",
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Bacon died in 1859, having in 1858 been placed by her family in the care of a
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consisted of Francis Bacon, Walter Ralegh, and perhaps Edmund Spenser,
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Her nephew, Theodore Bacon, wrote a biography of her entitled
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A series on alternative authorship theories for the works of
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for the telegraph, she learned of Bacon's interest in secret
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to win a short-story contest sponsored by the Philadelphia
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Returning to New Haven, Bacon met Yale-educated minister
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and Edgar Allan Poe, but proved to be a commercial flop.
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writer of plays and short stories; Shakespeare scholar
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vindicating that cause against tyranny. She had, in
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in 1846. Time in each other's company and a trip to
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The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded
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Delia Salter Bacon
Delia Bacon, from a daguerreotype taken in 1853.
Tallmadge, Ohio
Grove Street Cemetery
New Haven, Connecticut
authorship of Shakespeare's plays
Francis Bacon
Sir Walter Raleigh
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph Waldo Emerson
log cabin
Tallmadge
Congregational
minister
David Bacon
New Haven
New England
Leonard
Yale
Edgar Allan Poe
Ellen Tree
blank verse
Jane M'Crea
Alexander MacWhorter
Northampton
ecclesiastical trial
Catharine Beecher
lunatic asylum
Henley-in-Arden

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