Delia Bacon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American author best known for her work on Shakespearean authorship
Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1811
Place of Birth: Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 02-Sep-1859
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Delia Bacon
- Delia Salter Bacon (February 2, 1811 – September 2, 1859) was an American writer of plays and short stories and Shakespeare scholar.
- She is best known for her work on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays, which she attributed to social reformers including Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. Bacon's research in Boston, New York, and London led to the publication of her major work on the subject, The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded.
- Her admirers included authors Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson, the last of whom called her "America's greatest literary producer of the past ten years" at the time of her death.
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