The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bacon, Delia

BACON, Delia, author, was born at Tallmadge, Ohio, Feb. 2, 1811, daughter of David Bacon, missionary, and sister of Leonard Bacon, theologian. She was a teacher, and while so engaged in Boston delivered a series of lectures. She published "Tales of the Puritans" and "The Bride of Fort Edward" (1839). Her next work, and one which became well known, was "The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded," with introduction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which she attempted to show that Lord Bacon was one of the principal authors of the plays commonly credited to Shakespeare. She died in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 2, 1859.