Anne Bacon

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AB , one of the famously well-educated Cooke sisters, was a major Tudor translator of religious and religious-administrative texts, as well as a letter-writer. Her work was published in the mid-sixteenth century.
  • BirthName: Ann or Anne Cooke
    The preferred scholarly spelling of her name seems to have swung back from Ann to Anne. The designation Lady Anne Bacon, which appears on her published letters, is incorrect.

  • Married: LadyBacon
  • Pseudonym: A. C.
  • Titled: LadyBacon
Portrait of Anne Bacon Looking at towards audience. She is wearing a ruffled collar over a dress with jewellery. She is holding a small book in her right hand.

Milestones

Probably early 1528

Anne Cooke (later AB ) was born, probably at Gidea Hall in Essex, the second of the five celebrated daughters of the Cooke family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1564

Matthew Parker , Archbishop of Canterbury, published at her own request AB 's An Apologie in Defence of the Churche of Englande, translated from the Latin church settlement written by John Jewel , Bishop of Salisbury.
Again Early English Books Online has only the second edition, 1564, available.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

By 27 August 1610

AB died; she was nearing eighty.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

Probably early 1528

Anne Cooke (later AB ) was born, probably at Gidea Hall in Essex, the second of the five celebrated daughters of the Cooke family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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