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Anne, Lady Bacon ( née Cooke; 1527 or 1528 – 27 August 1610) was an English lady and scholar. She made a lasting contribution to English religious literature with her translation from Latin of John Jewel 's Apologie of the Anglican Church (1564). She was the mother of Francis Bacon . Early life.
Explore the life and letters of Lady Anne Bacon, a humanist scholar, reformist, and mother of Francis Bacon. EMLO provides a catalogue of her correspondence, edited by Gemma Allen, and links to related resources.
The letters of the learned and indomitable Lady Anne Bacon (1528–1610), mother of the philosopher Francis Bacon, are made accessible for the first time in this edition.
Anne herself was a formidable proponent of radical puritanism and exhorted leading ecclesiastical figures to remove all traces of “popery” from the Church of England. She married Sir Nicholas Bacon in 1553; their son, Francis Bacon, launched a scientific revolution with his method of inductive reasoning.
Lady Anne Bacon (c.1528– 1610) was a woman who inspired strong emotion in her own lifetime.
Holograph in Nicholas Bacon I's hand from ‘N. Bacon C.S.’; in Anne Bacon's hand from ‘I pray yow’. Chicago, 4123A. 2pp. Addressed: To my sonne Nicholas Bacon and to my servauntes Frauncis Boldero and Georg Nunne geve theise
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The letters of Lady Anne Bacon, mother of the philosopher Francis Bacon, made accessible for the first time. Provides insight into the lives of her relatives, including William Cecil, and other Elizabethan figures such as the Earl of Essex.
