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

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Wealth and Poverty Anne Bacon
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 .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
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The first, despite its title, is...
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...
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/.
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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.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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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.
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Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus.
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Textual Production Charlotte Stopes
CS 's critical sally later known as The Bacon -Shakspere Question Answered first appeared under the briefer and less familiar title of The Bacon-Shakspere Question.
Stopes, Charlotte. The Bacon-Shakspere Question. T. G. Johnson.
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Textual Features Caroline Blackwood
Critic Val Warner called CB a unique voice in twentieth-century British fiction.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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A press handout on Nancy Schoenberger 's biography likens Blackwood's work to that of Edna O'Brien , Muriel Spark , Iris Murdoch
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.
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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.
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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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