Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green.
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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 | |
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 |
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... |