William Enfield

Sherwood's father found The Traditions, correctly she said, grounded on high and chivalrous feeling, and ignorance of life.MMS said later that it was well-written for a seventeen-year-old. It received a good...

This novel aroused much interest. One letter was reprinted almost entire, without attribution, on 2 July 1789 in the Aberdeen Magazine as a Picture of the Mode of living at Calcutta. In a letter from...

The Critical Review welcomed the first volume, but said this young genius was worthy of, or needed, further cultivation. When volume two rapidly followed, the journal felt that it was premature. It complained that the...

ALB 's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body. She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...

This issue was a continuing interest of Barbauld's. She had contributed five hymns, anonymously, to William Enfield 's Hymns for Public Worship (published at Warrington in 1772), and had made manuscript notes in the...

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...

ALB collected and edited an anthology entitled The Female Speaker: she acknowledged the example of the popular The Speaker, edited by her friend William Enfield (which dated from 1774 and had quoted her...