Harriet Guest

AS belonged to the Anglican genteel or middle ranks. She had small tolerance for Dissenters. Critic Harriet Guest summarizes her political position as polite and provincial whiggery.

Miss Aikin's Poems sold five hundred copies in just over four months, and the second edition sold a similar number in a similar period. In September a third edition was announced. The Monthly Review...

Critic Harriet Guest , discussing this work, observes that it can be read in various ways: as satirising either women's political incompetence, or male self-importance and incivility, or as raising or hinting at further issues...

AS makes André the victim not of the American nationalists as such, but of the moment of their fall from good to evil, from liberty to tyranny, symbolised by the treaty they had just concluded...

HM 's Sensibility (a poem addressed to Frances Boscawen ) appeared in print together with her Sacred Dramas, by March 1782. Critic Harriet Guest says it was influenced by William Hayley 's Triumphs of Temper.