Lord Saint-Edith said he couldn't understand people thinkin… - Maurice Baring

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Lord Saint-Edith said he couldn't understand people thinking Bacon had written Shakespeare's plays. If they said Shakespeare had written the works of Bacon as a pastime he could understand it.

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Maurice Baring (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was a versatile English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent.

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Alternative Names: Hon. Maurice Baring • Major Hon. Maurice Baring

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