John Aikin

Standard Name: Aikin, John,, the younger
Used Form: Dr John Aikin

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Lucy Aikin
LA , aged eight, met the prison reformer John Howard , who was a friend of her father .
Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green.
xi-xii
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
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
Family and Intimate relationships Lucy Aikin
Her father, John Aikin , was a doctor and writer.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1864) 1: 396
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
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...
Friends, Associates Lucy Aikin
In her memoirs LA claims to have been acquainted with all the notable literary women of her time. She was a close friend of Joanna Baillie and Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger . Another important friend and...
Textual Production 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...
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
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's beloved brother John Aikin , who had been a support to her for so long, died after failing for several years.
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen.
152
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlvi
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 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)...
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
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB and her brother John Aikin , who was the younger by three and a half years, were very close all their lives both emotionally and intellectually. They collaborated as writers even when widely separated...

Timeline

1777: John Howard, with The State of the Prisons...

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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...

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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,...

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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)...

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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.