Delia Bacon
American author best known for her work on Shakespearean authorship
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- 1811–1859
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About Delia Bacon
Delia Salter Bacon was an American writer of plays and short stories and Shakespeare scholar. She is best known for her work on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays, which she attributed to social reformers including Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh and others.
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