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Kate Doubler

is Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of South Florida and a 2024-2025 research fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She is at work on a biography of Delia Salter Bacon (1811-1859), one of the first people to formulate a Shakespeare authorship conspiracy theory.
“I have lately been promoted to the ‘big douche’”
A naked man stands under a straight fall of water, holding on to two parallel bars at about waist height
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“I have lately been promoted to the ‘big douche’”

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Kate Doubler

Through her correspondence, Delia Salter Bacon reveals what it was like to undergo a 19th century “water-cure”