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.
JL
's preface explains her creed that it is of the utmost importance to cultivate habits of observation in childhood; as a great deal of the happiness of life depends upon our having our attention...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Wentworth Morton
The title-page quotes romantic, melancholy lines from Byron
's Childe Harold.
Bottorff, William K., and Sarah Wentworth Morton. “Introduction”. My Mind and its Thoughts, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, pp. 5-16.
12
An Apology closing the volume speaks of SWM
's disappointments and distresses (which are often mentioned, though unspecified, in her work) especially...
Intertextuality and Influence
Samuel Richardson
Innumerable women novelists later conducted a dialogue (some admiring, some rebutting or revising) with SR
. Few could ignore his influence completely. Frances Brooke
wrote his biography; Anna Letitia Barbauld
edited his letters, and Jane Austen
Intertextuality and Influence
Judith Sargent Murray
She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Heyrick
This attractive little book, written in the style of Anna Letitia Barbauld
's works for small children, opens: It is a pleasant thing to learn to read.
Heyrick, Elizabeth. Instructive Hints, in Easy Lessons for Children. Darton, Harvey and Darton.
prelims
It encompasses minutiae (instructions on how to...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Trimmer
Taking Barbauld
as her acknowledged model, ST
sets out to inculcate knowledge of and reverence for God's creation, by means of a heavily instructive maternal monologue, continued from one day to another without space for...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anna Maria Mackenzie
Meanwhile the heroine, Maria Stanley, is unjustly spurned by her husband because he believes the lying insinuations of a jealous and wicked woman whom he has rejected, but the truth is revealed in time for...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Marcet
It dealt with physics, and launched the technique of dialogue between rigorous, kindly Mrs B. (said to have been named for Anna Letitia Barbauld
) and her two pupils, Emily and Caroline, which JM
was...
Anna Letitia Barbauld
encouraged her goal of publication, thereby incurring some of the disapproval.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Harriet Martineau
Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me.
L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett.
Fitz-Edward, set in Wales, has poems interspersed, besides the lines of verse heading its chapters, which include the work of Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Mary Robinson
, Mary Tighe
, and EP
herself, cited as Emma De Lisle.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Grant
As the title implies, this was written on the model of Anna Letitia Barbauld
's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, though it also rebukes what AG
would have seen as Barbauld's defeatism and failure of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Grant
Leaving these images of militarism and turning back to Britain with Princess Charlotte
in mind, AGcast[s] a forward glance to hope again / Protracted blessings in a female reign,
Grant, Anne. Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Ballantyne.
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looking to Charlotte to...
Intertextuality and Influence
Annabella Plumptre
The Stories follow the new style of writing for children introduced by Anna Letitia Barbauld
and others. They were intended to open a series which would lead gradually on from one level of understanding to...