Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green.
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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 | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | For this her great support and encouragement was her brother
(as he, rather than her husband
, continued to be for her later publications). After he left home to pursue his studies, she sent him... |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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 |