The Cooke household was admired as a small university, of which the most astonishing feature was that the girls shared completely in the boys' studies. Anne shared with her elder brother, Anthony, whom she...
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Anne Bacon
It probably dated, though, from early in the reign of Elizabeth I. Gemma Allen
suggests that its author saw it as a companion piece to AB
's Defence of the Church of England.
Allen, Gemma. The Cooke Sisters. Manchester University Press, 2013.
