Lady Anne Bacon (1528-1610) grew up as one of five scholarly sisters in a gentry family. She has for centuries been almost hidden from history, though renowned in her time for her learning and influence. Yet the surviving evidence, now brought out of the shadows, reveals a woman of incisive intelligence, courage and tenacity, who had a considerable impact on the Tudor era. A published translator by the age of twenty and committed to the cause of religious reform, Lady Anne Bacon lived through the great reverses and transitions of five reigns and was embedded in the network of power at the Tudor Court as a woman of the Privy Chamber, the inner circle of royal attendants, to both Mary I and Elizabeth I. Deborah Spring originally studied social anthropology at Cambridge, later gaining an MA in garden history, Birkbeck, University of London, and a further MA in biography at the University of East Anglia. Join Deborah Spring in a fascinating talk followed by a Q&A and a special book signing.