William Enfield

This work was controversial. William Enfield in the Monthly Review praised it and endorsed its opinions.Mary Wollstonecraft quoted from Barbauld's Thoughts on the Devotional Taste in her own preface to The Female Reader...

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...

The literary society of ALB 's time was, as biographer Betsy Rodgers notes, small and intimate. Writers all knew each other and kept in touch; those who did not live in London visited frequently...

For this her great support and encouragement was her brother (as he, rather than her husband , continued to be for her later publications). After he left home to pursue his studies, she sent him...

Very few copies sold. The single review, recalled by JB as significant, was by the Rev. William Enfield , who wrote in the Monthly Review of November 1791, that the poems were simple, unexaggerated,...