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Anne Bacon

“I do perceive that the old proverbs be not always true, for I do find that the absence of my Nathaniel does breed in me the more continual remembrance of him ...”
- Anne Bacon,
- 1613, in Jane Cornwallis Bacon, The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis Bacon 1613-1644 (1842)

Anne Bacon, English scholar, translator, mother of Francis Bacon

(1528 - 1616)

Full name: Anne Cooke, Lady Bacon.