 Pott founded the Francis Bacon Society in 1885 and published her Bacon-centered theory in 1891.In this, Pott developed the view of W.F.C.Wigston, that Francis Bacon was the founding member of the Rosicrucians, a secret society of occult philosophers, and claimed that they secretly created art, literature and drama, including the entire Shakespeare canon, before adding the symbols of the rose and cross to their work.