McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | Over the course of her long life JB
made dozens of well-loved friends, many of them either professional writers like herself or else writing amateurs. They included Lucy Aikin
, Mary Berry
, Eliza Fletcher |
Occupation | Anna Letitia Barbauld | After moving to Hampstead with her husband
, ALB
began taking in private (female) pupils. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xliv Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen. 101-2 McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 266 |
Residence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
and her husband
moved to Stoke Newington; she lived there the rest of her life. Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen. 129, 153 McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xlv |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The young Samuel Taylor Coleridge
walked forty miles in order to meet ALB
and her husband
. He had already been influenced by her poetry, and she had reviewed his. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xlv McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 399-400 |
Violence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Rochemont Barbauld
violently assaulted ALB
when she intervened to try to speed up the compulsive washing which was making him late for an appointment. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xlv McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 436-7 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
reported that her insane husband
's affection for her was gone, replaced by a violent antipathy. In response to her family's anxiety he went away, to try the experiment of temporary separation. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xlv Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen. 137-8 McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 439-40 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's husband
drowned himself in the New River on a wild and rainy night. He had made his will ten days before this, leaving everything to her. His body was found next day in... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
addressed to her husband
a love-poem of tender intimacy, an exhortation to be cheerful and to disregard the world's criticism. Barbauld, Anna Letitia. Anna Letitia Barbauld : Selected Poetry and Prose. Editors McCarthy, William and Elizabeth Kraft, Broadview. 103 |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Monthly Repository published ALB
's Memoir of the Rev. R. Barbauld. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. 369 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Rochemont Barbauld
came from a French Huguenot family and had a strong foreign accent as a result of spending his childhood abroad. He was ALB
's junior by six years, small in stature, emotionally unstable... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Anna Aikin (later ALB
) met her future husband
in Warrington when he was admitted as a student to the Warrington Academy
. Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen. 62 |
Occupation | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Rochement
was minister to a Dissenting congregation while they ran the school. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xliv Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen. 64 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Anna Aikin
and Rochemont Barbauld
were married in the parish church (the Anglican church) of Warrington by Rochemont's father. Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen. 64 McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xliv McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 124 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | During the 1790s Rochemont Barbauld
's behaviour became increasingly restless and what would today be called manic. He developed a habit of compulsive washing and suspected a non-existent conspiracy on the part of someone to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Since she and her husband
were so far childless (as they remained), ALB
adopted her brother
's third son, Charles Rochemont Aikin
, to bring up as her own. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 188 McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xliv |
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