Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, p. vii - xxix.
xxvi, ix-x
John Aikin
Standard Name: Aikin, John,, the younger
Used Form: Dr John Aikin
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
,... |
| Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | AO
's friendship with Anne
and Annabella Plumptre
(daughters of Robert Plumptre
, Prebend of Norwich, both of whom grew up to be writers) dated from their shared childhood. |
| Literary responses | Amelia Opie | Barbauld
found the poem touchingly picturesque and original; her brother, John Aikin
, thought it self-indulgent. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 265 |
| Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | In January 1797 the Critical Review recorded the widespread opinion that the author of Literary Ladies was John Aikin
(brother of Anna Laetitia Barbauld
, and a prolific and respected writer on pedagogical and social... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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.