©E.M. Dutton (2009)Sniffs of Controversy
Sniffs of Controversy
Following is a list of authors who sniffed out, if you will, theirregularities on the well-known Shakespeare controversy thatbegan in 1848.
1848:
(first notice of an irregularity).
The Ancient Lethe. In The Romance of Yachting; Voyage the First
. By Joseph C. Hart, author of
Miriam Coffin
. New York:Harper & Brothers, 1848; I2mo. pp. 332.Joseph Hart was a lawyer, journalist, and yachtsman; he served as Colonel in TheNational Guard. He lived in New York, especially from 1832 to 1850. During hislater years, he was American Consul to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and died there in1855, in his 57th year.
He was the very first person to state (in print) his views on how Bacon’s works were
very similar to
Shakespeare’s. A
private letter concerning him notes
: “He was quite
proud of writing that chapter as to Shakespeare, and declared that in time his
views must become accepted.”
1852:
Who Wrote Shakespeare?
An article in Chambers’
s
“
Edinburgh Journal
” of
August 7th.The author is unknown; however, this would be the second individual who wouldwrite views that something were not right concerning Shakespeare and Bacon.
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1853 & 1854:
“
Notes & Queries.
”
London. First Series. From Theta, Vol. VIII., p. 438,November 5, 1853. Answer by
“
C
” in
Vol. X., p. 106, August 15, 1854.No author is named, and the answer was considered unimportant, except as thecommencement of the series of articles running through
“
Notes & Queries.
”
1856:
William Shakespeare And His Plays. An Inquiry Concerning Them
. By Delia
Bacon. In Putnam’s Monthly, January, 1856, pages 1
-19.Delia Bacon was the first writer who connected Francis Bacon with the authorshipof the Shakespearian dramas, and in this article she first suggests it not directly,but rather by inference.
1856
: Review of Delia Bacon’s Article in “Putnam’s Monthly.”
In
“T
he Athenaeum,
”
London, July 26, 1856, p. 108.
1856
:
Was Lord Bacon the Author o
f Shakespeare’s Pla
ys?
A letter to Lord Ellesmere,by William Henry Smith. Pamphlet. Printed for private circulation. London:
September, 1856. (This was reproduced in Littell’s
Living Age
, November, 1856, withfour pages in Littell).This was addressed to the Earl of Ellesmere as the late President of theShakespeare Society. It takes strong grounds in favour of the Baconian authorship.
1856
:
Was Lord Bacon The Author Of Shakespeare’s Plays?
In the
“
Literary Gazette,
”
London, September 6, 1856. In the same, October 18, 1856.
Both articles are notices of Smith’s Ellesmere pamphlet
; the latter acomprehensive review.
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1856
: Review of Smith’s Letter To Lord Ellesmere. In “T
he Athenaeum,
”
London,September 13, 1856, p. 1133.
1856
:
“
Notes & Queries.
”
London. Second Series. From A. Hopper, II, 267, October 4,1856. Review of Ellesmere letter, II, 320, October 18, 1856. From Vox, II, 369,November 8, 1856. From W.H.S. [Smith] II, 503, December 27, 1856. From R.Slocomb, II, 504, December 27, 1856.
1856
:
Shakespeare & Lord Bacon
. In the
“
Illustrated London News,
”
October 25,1856. Column I.
1856
:
On The Art of Caviling. All is humbug
. In Black-
wood’s
magazine, Edinburgh,November, 1856. 15 pages.
1856
:
Shakespeare & Bacon. A little chink may let in much light
. Anonymous. [By DR.C.M. Ingleby.] In the
“
Illustrated London News,
”
December 6, 1856, p. 577.
1857
:
I Won’t Have Bacon
. A communication by John Bull. In
the “
Illustrated LondonNews,
”
January 10, 1857.
1857
:
Bacon & Shakespeare
. Letter from William Henry Smith, on the Psalmstranslated by Bacon. In
“T
he Athenaeum,
”
London, January 24, 1857, p. 122.
1857
:
William Shakespeare not an Impostor
. By an English Critic. [Geo. H.Townsend.] London and New York: G. Routledge & Co., 1857, I2mo. pp. 122.
1857
: Reviews of Townsend’s
Shakespeare not an Impostor
. In
“T
he Athenaeum,
”
London, February 14, 1857, p. 213. In the
“
Literary Gazette,
”
London, February 21,1857, p. 181.
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