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Anne Bacon (née Cooke) (c. 1528–1610), one of the five renowned Cooke sisters who were the daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke and Anne Fitzwilliam Cooke, was born at Gidea Hall in Essex. From her father, a tutor to Edward VI, she received an excellent humanist education, which would provide the foundation of her legacy as a translator and correspondent. Her translations of Bernardino Ochino’s sermons and John Jewel’s Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, along with her copious correspondence, place her in the midst of a lively transnational, Reformist humanist circle during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Her marriage to Nicholas Bacon, a privy councillor and lord keeper of the great seal for Elizabeth I, which produced her sons Anthony and Francis Bacon, placed Bacon in a position of prominence in court life, facilitating her endeavors in patronage and politics.
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Phillippy, Patricia, ed. 2011. Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell: The Writings of an English Sappho. With Translations from Greek and Latin by Jaime Goodrich. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Toronto: Iter, CRRS.
Schleiner, Louise. 1994. Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
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Campbell, J.D. (2022). Bacon, Anne (née Cooke). In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_290-1
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