Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Francis Bacon
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Standard Name: Bacon, Francis,, 1561 - 1626
Used Form: Viscount St. Albans
Used Form: Lord Verulam
Used Form: Sir Francis Bacon
Connections
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Wealth and Poverty | Anne Bacon | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Stevenson | Many of these poems are occasional. Journal Entry: Ward's Island, inscribed to Lauris Edmond
, recalls minus-eighteen-degree weather on the last day of a poetry festival in Toronto in February 1989. (AS
describes... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Stopes | Here CS
attacked the fairly recently launched theory that Francis Bacon
was the true author of the publications of William Shakespeare
. She writes in her preface to the second edition that the great Shakespearean... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | The essays include Samuel Pepys
and Francis Bacon
, Lord Verulam
and Viscount St. Albans, A Curiosity of Literature not Mentioned by Isaac Disraeli and Servants. Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Shells from the Sands of Time. Bickers and Son, http://U of Toronto. title-page |
Textual Production | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
published The Winding Stair, a biography of Sir Francis Bacon
(about whom she had already written the previous year in Golden Lads). TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3880 (23 July 1976): 914 “Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com. Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne. 150 Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus. 391 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Stopes | |
Textual Production | John Buchan | JB
began young: he published his first work, a hymn, in 1887, at the age of eleven. While at university he published poetry, history, a historical novel, and short stories, and he also edited Francis Bacon |
Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press
, with a quotation from Francis Bacon
on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare
, Swift
, Prior
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, Edward Young |
Textual Production | Agnes Mary Clerke | While many of her articles were printed in the Edinburgh Review, she also contributed to a range of other periodicals. And while she focused her writings primarily on astronomy, she by no means neglected... |
Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | The full title is Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean. DM
must surely have intended allusion to Francis Bacon |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | It was dated 1851. Her biographer R. K. Webb
claims that the bulk of the book is Atkinson
's, with promptings from Harriet Martineau
, although it certainly also includes substantial letters from her. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
published a biographical study: Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon
, Francis
and Their Friends (whose title comes from the dirge for Fedele in Shakespeare
's Cymbeline). Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus. 389 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3835 (12 September 1975): 1014 |
Textual Features | Frances, Lady Norton | The preliminary pages feature a poem written by Grace aged eleven: 16 lines in couplets, expressing the sentiment that there is no true happiness for mortals on earth, but only in heaven. Grace, Lady Gethin,. Misery’s Virtues Whetstone. Editor Frances, Lady Norton, Printed by D. Edwards for the author. A3r |
Textual Features | Sarah Green | SG
's preface puts her cards on the table as a political and social conservative. It says Reform, which seems now to be the present order of the day, Green, Sarah. The Reformist!!! A Serio-Comic Political Novel. Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co. 1: i |
Textual Features | Ethel Sidgwick | Hatchways is one of ES
's more humorous novels, since much is made of a foreign visitor's response to English culture and his desire to know more about what he takes to be its representatives.... |
Timeline
Between late 1584 and early 1585: Francis Bacon wrote his Letter of Advice...
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Between late 1584 and early 1585
Francis Bacon
wrote his Letter of Advice to Queen Elizabeth.
5 February 1597: Francis Bacon's volume of Essayes, Religious...
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5 February 1597
Francis Bacon
's volume of Essayes, Religious Meditations, Places of perswasion and disswasion, was published.
October 1620: Francis Bacon published his influential Novum...
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October 1620
Francis Bacon
published his influential Novum Organum, a Latin work of science and scientific theory; it formed the second part of his Instauratio Magna.
1627: Francis Bacon's New Atlantis first appeared...
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1627
Francis Bacon
's New Atlantis first appeared as part of his Sylva Sylvarum; it is a utopia dealing with science and politics, and had been written in 1624.
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