McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
xxviii
John Aikin
Standard Name: Aikin, John,, the younger
Used Form: Dr John Aikin
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
collaborated with her brother
again in volumes 1 and 2 of his Evenings at Home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened, which reached six volumes in 1796. Her fourteen items (among nearly a hundred)... |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's niece
wrote of her (with an echo of Pope
on himself) that while yet a child, she was surprised to find herself a poet. |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Two years after her marriage ALB
proposed in jest to her brother
that they should cobble together their written fragments for a publication to be called Joineriana. She had no time, she said, to... |
| Textual Production | Lucy Aikin | LA
published a biography of her father
: Memoir of John Aikin, M.D. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 93 (1823) 1: 160 |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Joseph Johnson
did not advertise this work, yet an edition was printed as far away as Dundee. It was popularly priced at sixpence, six months before Hannah More
's Village Politics and nearly three... |
| Textual Production | Lucy Aikin | |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Anna Aikin (later ALB
) first reached print with songs contributed to her brother John
's first literary production, Essays on Song-Writing. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 107n28 McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xliii-xliv, 248 |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Anna Aikin (later ALB
) joined with her brother John
in Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, in which her seven contributions and his four were not distinguished by name. The tale of Sir Bertrand (part... |
| Textual Features | Tabitha Tenney | Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone
, John Aikin
and Anna Letitia Barbauld
(Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson
, Elizabeth Carter
, Hester Thrale
,... |
| Residence | Lucy Aikin | After her father
's death, LA
and her mother lived in Hampstead until her mother too died. Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green. xxv |
| Residence | Lucy Aikin | Her father
retired in that year, and the family moved for the benefit of his health. They stayed there until just after his death in late 1822. Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green. xviii-xix |
| Publishing | Anna Letitia Barbauld | While ALB
's brother John
was editor of the Monthly Magazine; she contributed to it at least fifteen poems and essays, perhaps many more. 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. 372 |
| Publishing | Anna Letitia Barbauld | She wrote for other periodicals as well. From 1803 she reviewed poetry and belles lettres for the Annual Review, edited by her nephew Arthur Aikin
, though few of her contributions are identified. For... |
| Publishing | Ann Batten Cristall | Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld
and her brother
, Ann Jebb
, the future Amelia Opie
, Anna Maria Porter
, Mary Wollstonecraft
and her sister, Mary Hays
and her sister, a Mrs Spence who... |
| Occupation | Lucy Aikin | At the time of their move to Stoke Newington, LA
took on the task of caring for her father
, who had been somewhat disabled physically (though not mentally) by a stroke. He relied on... |
Timeline
1777: John Howard, with The State of the Prisons...
Building item
1777
John Howard
, with The State of the Prisons in England and Wales (printed by William Eyres
at Warrington and sold by Joseph Johnson
in London) initiated a movement for prison reform.
23 May 1794-1 July 1795: The Habeas Corpus Act (against imprisonment...
National or international item
23 May 1794-1 July 1795
The Habeas Corpus Act (against imprisonment without trial) was suspended in a crackdown on treasonable or radical activity. John Aikin
wrote that its suspension during the war years became so frequent as to be habitual.
February 1796: The Monthly Magazine: or British Register,...
Writing climate item
February 1796
The Monthly Magazine: or British Register, edited by Anna Letitia Barbauld
's brother John Aikin
, began publication.
January 1807-June 1809: John Aikin (Anna Letitia Barbauld's brother)...
Writing climate item
January 1807-June 1809
John Aikin
(Anna Letitia Barbauld
's brother) ran a Dissenting periodical, The Athenæum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information.
Texts
Barbauld, Anna Letitia, and John Aikin. Evenings at Home. J. Johnson, 1796.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia, and John Aikin. Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose. J. Johnson, 1773.