Baconian theory
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Baconian theory
First recorded in 1870–75
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Summarized were all the scholarly comments on every disputed passage, and the Baconian theory was exhaustively surveyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once, I was told, Professor Kittredge advised the members of his English class at Radcliffe not to read any books on the Baconian theory.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Baconian theory has found its widest acceptance in America.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee
This Celtic divine was twenty-five, Miss Bacon was thirty-five; there arose a misunderstanding; but Miss Bacon had developed her Baconian theory before she knew Mr. MacWhorter.
From The Valet's tragedy, and other studies by Andrew Lang
I am inclined at times to explain the evidence in favour of the Baconian theory of Shakespeare as pattern-mongering.
From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd
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