Francis Bacon

Browne had made his Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents [sic] and commonly presumed truths (addressed not to ordinary, mis-informed people but to men of learning) almost an encyclopaedia of seventeenth-century misconceptions...

Her guardianship of Shakespeare 's memory extended to public opposition of the Baconian theory that emerged in the early twentieth century: the belief that Shakespeare was not the author of the works attributed to him...

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...

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

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

Critic Val Warner called CB a unique voice in twentieth-century British fiction. A press handout on Nancy Schoenberger 's biography likens Blackwood's work to that of Edna O'Brien , Muriel Spark , Iris Murdoch

Each chapter reflects on a single yet complex aspect of female life in India, from a woman's birth to her death. Each includes an epigraph to introduce its themes and issues, some from Indian cultural...

AB bore her younger son, Francis , who became an influential scientist, writer, and thinker, as well as Lord Chancellor of England, and Viscount St Albans.

The year after her elder son 's death, AB passed on the family estate of Gorhambury Place, near St Albans, to her younger son, Sir Francis .

During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind. He provided her...