Delia Bacon (1811-1859)

Bacon, Martha. "The Parson and the Blue Stocking: Delia Bacon and Alexander MacWhorter." American Heritage 13(December, 1961)1:12-15, 88-91.

Bacon, Theodore. Delia Bacon, A Biographical Sketch. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888.

Hopkins, Vivian C. Prodigal Puritan: A Life of Delia Bacon. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1959. Delia Bacon is most widely known for developing the theory that Shakespeare's plays were written by Francis Bacon. She was a friend of Carlyle, Hawthorne, Emerson.