Lucy Aikin

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Standard Name: Aikin, Lucy
Birth Name: Lucy Aikin
Pseudonym: L. A.
Pseudonym: Mary Godolphin
Pseudonym: L. A.
LA 's famous relations made her modest about her creative writing. Publishing during the early nineteenth century, she has to her credit a major poem expressing revisionist historical and feminist ideas, and an interesting novel, as well as much biographical and historical scholarship and some writing for children. She was a pioneer in the writing of cultural history concerned with social environment as well as events. A number of her letters were published after her death.

Connections

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Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Lucy Aikin gave it as her opinion in print that EOB 's precarious financial situation made it fortunate for her that she had not lived longer: old age would have found her unprovided.
The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme.
1 n.s., 1827.127
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's niece wrote of her (with an echo of Pope on himself) that while yet a child, she was surprised to find herself a poet.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
xxviii
She herself, however, said it was Joseph Priestley
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
In summer 1789 she wrote a poem of complex feeling, An Epistle to Dr Enfield, which she said he was to throw into the Mersey on a farewell visit to Warrington. It too...
Textual Production Catherine Fanshawe
The letters that CF sent to Anne Grant are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their...
Textual Production Elizabeth Hamilton
This was published at Bath and London. EH did serious historical research for this book, reading all the Roman history she could find in English and even commissioning translations.
There was already women's work...
Textual Production Elizabeth Heyrick
She printed this for the Author,
Heyrick, Elizabeth. Familiar Letters Addressed to Children and Young Persons of the Middle Ranks. Darton, Harvey and Darton.
title-page
which means she took the risk and would keep the profit after paying her publisher, Darton, Harvey and Darton . (A Leicester bookseller was also listed on...
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
Her older friend Lucy Aikin considered the scheme presumptuous and composed a letter to HM advising her to abandon it for humbler tasks more appropriate to her age and gender, but she held off sending...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's niece Lucy Aikin posthumously published her aunt's Works, with a memoir.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlvi
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
Lucy Aikin edited and posthumously issued a volume of ALB 's poems and mostly unpublished prose pieces (some epistolary) as A Legacy for Young Ladies. The whole has been called a conduct book.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlvi
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
675
Textual Production Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Lucy Aikin said that at the time of her death EOB was planning to write a comparable volume of memoirs of the time of Henri IV of France (the former champion of Protestants who converted...
Textual Features Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB draws on Hannah More , her niece Lucy Aikin , and (anonymously) Joanna Baillie . She is even-handed in that she includes six excerpts from James Fordyce 's Sermons to Young Women, a...
Textual Features Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...
Textual Features Elizabeth Cobbold
This collection features poetry by women such as Anna Maria Porter , Amelia Opie , Lucy Aikin , Elizabeth Carter , Anna Letitia Barbauld , Anne Hunter , Mary RobinsonCharlotte Smith , and EC herself.
Residence Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
EOB had persuaded her mother to settle the pair of them in London.
This is the date given by Lucy Aikin in her obituary of Benger, though elsewhere she places the move a year...
Publishing Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Joanna Baillie chose two of EOB 's poems for inclusion in her Collection of Poems, published in early 1823.
Baillie, Joanna, editor. A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
Lucy Aikin 's memoir of Benger (as published in one of its subject's works after...

Timeline

9 September 1803: The first number appeared of the Annual Review,...

Writing climate item

9 September 1803

The first number appeared of the Annual Review, a Dissenting periodical run by Lucy Aikin 's brother Arthur Aikin , which had been planned in 1802.

By Christmas 1869: Francis Galton, mathematician, scientist,...

Writing climate item

By Christmas 1869

Francis Galton , mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,

Texts

Barbauld, Anna Letitia. A Legacy for Young Ladies. Editor Aikin, Lucy, Longman, 1826.
Aikin, Lucy. Correspondence of William Ellery Channing, D. D., and Lucy Aikin, from 1826 to 1842. Editor Le Breton, Anna Letitia, Roberts, 1874.
Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women, Exemplifying their Character and Condition in Various Ages and Nations. J. Johnson, 1810.
Aikin, Lucy. Lorimer, A Tale. Henry Colburn, 1814.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia. “Memoir”. The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, edited by Lucy Aikin, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825, p. 1: v - lxix.
Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.
Aikin, Lucy, and Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger. “Memoir of Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger”. Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, 3rdrd ed, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827.
Aikin, Lucy. Memoir of John Aikin, M. D. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1823.
Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First. Longman, 1833.
Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs of the Court of King James the First. Longman, 1822.
Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818.
Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters. Editor Le Breton, Philip Hemery, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.
Aikin, Lucy, editor. Poetry for Children. Consisting of Short Pieces, to be Committed to Memory. R. Phillips, 1801.
Aikin, Lucy. The Life of Joseph Addison. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia. The Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld. Editor Aikin, Lucy, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825.