scientific confirmation and silencing the critics. Then Elizebeth would assist Mrs. Gallup with new investigations. Mrs. Gallup believed that in addition to authoring Shakespeare, Bacon also secretly wrote works commonly attributed to Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and other major figures of the age. Together Elizebeth and Mrs. Gallup would rewrite the history of seventeenth-century England—and by extension, the history of all English literature. George Fabyan popped in briefly, to see how the women were getting
