Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Standard Name: Barbauld, Anna Letitia
Birth Name: Anna Letitia Aikin
Nickname: Nancy
Married Name: Anna Letitia Barbauld
Pseudonym: A Dissenter
Pseudonym: A Volunteer
Pseudonym: Bob Short
Used Form: Mrs Barbauld
Used Form: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
ALB
, writing and publishing in the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century, was a true woman of letters, an important poet, revered as mouthpiece or laureate for Rational Dissent. Her ground-breaking work on literary, political, social, and other intellectual topics balances her still better-known pedagogical works and writings for the very young. During her lifetime an extraordinary revolution in public opinion made her vilified as markedly as she had been revered.
ST
's Little Spelling Book for Young Children (designed, she said, to teach the user enough to read Barbauld
's Lessons for Children) reached a second edition by August 1786. As a kind of...
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Elizabeth Inchbald
EI
, or others involved, must have declined to participate in the Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
on 13 June 1816, for a women's periodical intended to bear the names of Inchbald, Barbauld
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Maria Edgeworth
ME
revised Belinda for inclusion in A. L. Barbauld
's series of The British Novelists.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
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Frances Jacson
This is another novel ascribed in earlier sources to Alethea Lewis
, and available through Chawton
Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. Two plot-elements, indeed, are parallelled in Lewis's life: the motherless heroine, Caroline, and the long-drawn-out...
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Maria Edgeworth
ME
's early letters to her friend Fanny Robinson
are earnest and priggish. By the 1790s she was sending the Ruxtons letters which have literary merit in themselves (mixing amusing anecdote and expressions of affection)...
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Ann Taylor Gilbert
ATG
later remembered that she was writing poetry at seven or eight. She also planned large literary projects
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 46
including a prequel to Homer
's Iliad. Like Frances Burney
, she tried to...
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Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
The full title of the main work was The Principles of Beauty as Manifested in Nature, Art, and Human Character, with a classification of deformities. The subsidiary works included in the volume were An...
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Lucy Aikin
Anna Letitia Le Breton
, niece of LA
, published two works concerning her: Memoir of Mrs. Barbauld (based on Aikin's manuscript Family History) and her correspondence with William Ellery Channing
.
AJ
published Two Penny-worth of Truth for a Penny; or, A True State of Facts, With an apology for Tom Bull in a letter to brother John, a pamphlet in answer to one by...
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Elizabeth Carter
Anna Letitia Barbauld
first revealed that EC
wrote five paragraphs (regarded as authoritative) in a conversational debate among characters in Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison on Man's usurpation, and woman's natural independency.
Richardson, Samuel. Sir Charles Grandison. Editor Harris, Jocelyn, Oxford University Press.
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Maria Edgeworth
In July 1804 ME
proposed to Anna Letitia Barbauld
a scheme for a periodical to be written both for and by women. The timing, however, was unfortunate, and Barbauld declined.
Manly, Susan. “Maria Edgeworth (1768-1846)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol.
10
, No. 2, pp. 1-3.
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McCarthy, William. “Why Anna Letitia Barbauld Refused to Head a Women’s College: New Facts, New Story”. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol.
23
, No. 3, pp. 349-79.
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Elizabeth Hamilton
EH
would clearly have been unable, for health reasons, to participate in the abortive Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
very shortly before Hamilton died—a projected women's periodical, which was to bear EH
's...
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Maria Edgeworth
The Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
on 13 June this year, for a women's periodical bearing the names of ME
, BarbauldInchbald
, and Hamilton
, seems not to have materialised. It...
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Lucy Aikin
Though LA
continued to write for children, and edited various writings by her aunt
and her father
, she did not think of herself as a writer in the same sense that they were. Her...
