A Biography
Author
Jean Overton Fuller
A Biography
Author
Jean Overton Fuller
The life of Francis Bacon has been the subject of much academic controversy and unresolved questioning. This book, with a deep awareness of previous research, unravels some of the mysteries with much new and convincing evidence. The author explores the life and literary works of the man, beginning with a thorough examination (aided by one of the foremost geneticists) of the fierce speculation over Bacon's true parentage. With a fresh approach, the author analyses Bacon's connection with Freemasonry and its effects on his writing; the Shakespearean contention; his tentative anticipation of scientific theory, and his role as Lord Chancellor and royal advisor. The result is perhaps the most complete profile of the man with exciting new evidence of his influence on sixteenth century Britain.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 11 Chronology 15 Note 21 1. Infancy 25 2. If he is illegitimate 27 3. Elizabeth and
Leicester 33 4. Boyhood 40 5. The Will 44 6.The English Circe 45 7. Grays Inn 47 8. Parliament 48 9. The Aramada and the death of
Leicester 51 10. Beginnings of
Influence 52 11.The Return of Anthony 53 12. Essex 56 13. Quarrel with the
Queen 60 14. Hope disappointed 61 15. Tower employment 66 16. Gray's Inn Revels 69 17. The Northumberland
Manuscript 71 18. Promus 77 19. Hall and Marston 80 20. Jonson I 97 21. The Countess of
Southampton 104 22. Ovid's Circe 112 23. The friend 116 24. A retrospect 122 25. Fool's garb 128 26. The tooth out 130 27. Warning to Essex 137 28. The return of
Southampton 140 29. A lady richly left 141 30. Essex and Southampton leave for
Ireland 144 31 Falstaff 146 32. The sombre tragedy of
Essex 150 33. The execution 161 34. Shadows of a closing
reign 168 35. The blackness needing
eisel 171 36. Bereavement 179 37. James I 181 38. The Advancement of
Learning 185 39. Gunpowder Plot 188 40. Marriage 190 41. Solicitor 195 42. Death of Lady Bacon 199 43. Jonson II 200 44. John Davies of
Hereford 202 45. The Wisdom of the
Ancients 203 46. Age shall not wither
her 206 47. The Virginia company 210 48. In settng forth 211 49. The mysteries 214 50.Attorney 226 51. The learned butcher's
boy 229 52. The veiled and feathered
sunburst 241 53. The Overbury murder 252 54. Bacon to Villiers 257 55. The suspension of
Coke 259 56. Lord Chancellor 261 57. Baron Verulam 267 58. Novum Organum 272 59. Herbert's tribute 276 60. Lord St. Alban 278 61. Scandal threatens the
King 281 62. The sacrifice 282 63. The submission 286 64. The empty dishes 290 65. Henry VII 294 66. The rape of York
House 295 67. Bacon and the Queen of
Bohemia 297 68. De Augmentis
Scientiarum 299 69. The New
Atlantis 301 70. The quest for
longevity 303 71. Sylva
Sylvarum 306 72. "Had I but served my
God...." 308 73. Considerations touching a
war with Spain 312 74. The painting and the
bust 314 75. The Folio 316 76. Cryptomenytices 320 77. The starting of a
witch 325 78. Charles I 334 79. The Psalms 335 80. The
Essays 339 81. The chill in the
snow 344 82. Manes
Verulamiani 346 Appendices Two Ducth title-pages The establishment of Essex's birth
data from a manuscript horoscope in the British
Museum Pope's Tribute 347 349 352 Bibliograpy Index 363 375
Van der Werff's portrait of Elizabeth
The Gorhambury Quartos
359
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