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.
In a later generation Anna Letitia Barbauld
followed Hertford and Carter in celebrating ESR
her in poetry. Such different figures as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
and Clara Reeve
endorsed her. She had a huge following...
Leisure and Society
Sarah Austin
Barbauld
introduced SA
to theatre, opera, and metropolitan conversation.
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Ann Radcliffe
Influences on AR
's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley
's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
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AR
probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Hays
Among the book's contents are poems and fiction (including dream visions and an Oriental tale. Titles like Cleora, or the Misery Attending Unsuitable Connections and Josepha, or pernicious Effects of early Indulgence foreground Hays's didactic...
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
Ann Thicknesse
AT
makes it clear she is no proto-feminist: If women are thought to possess minds less capable of solid reflection than men, they owe this conjecture entirely to their own vanity, and erroneous method of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Loudon
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.
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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
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...