Barbauld, Anna Letitia. Anna Letitia Barbauld : Selected Poetry and Prose. Editors McCarthy, William and Elizabeth Kraft, Broadview.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | To the same year, probably, belong An Address to the Deity (a devotional poem written in response to Joseph Priestley
's preaching) and To Mrs. P[riestley], with some Drawings of Birds and Insects. Barbauld, Anna Letitia. Anna Letitia Barbauld : Selected Poetry and Prose. Editors McCarthy, William and Elizabeth Kraft, Broadview. 41,44 |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body. Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications. 49-50 |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | This work was controversial. William Enfield
in the Monthly Review praised it and endorsed its opinions. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 162-3 |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | She also kept up her output of political poetry. Only a few years after this Hannah More
's Bishop Bonner's Ghost (a ballad extolling, through irony, the modern, enlightened Church of England
) drew from... |
Publishing | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
Publishing | Anna Letitia Barbauld | A local newspaper, the Norwich Iris, published a letter from ALB
in defence of Joseph Priestley
. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. 369 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Her close friends at this period included Mary
and Joseph Priestley
and a number of young women of her own age. She was particularly attracted by a pair of sisters who got themselves barred from... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's niece
wrote of her (with an echo of Pope
on himself) that while yet a child, she was surprised to find herself a poet. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xxviii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | ME
's overall pedagogic project (shared with her father) was a programmatic rejection Butler, Marilyn. “Edgeworth’s Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795-1801”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, pp. 75-93. 82 |
Residence | Ann Gomersall | At some time after her marriage AG
left London and settled in the industrial town of Leeds, far from her origins. Among manufacturing towns it had a remarkably lively cultural life. Joseph Priestley
had... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | Among her early mentors MH
numbered Robert Robinson
, William Frend
(whose friendship she owed to her first book publication), and George Dyer
. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon. 82 |
Literary responses | Mary Hays | William Frend
had read the work in manuscript and been much pleased, though he took the liberty of suggesting a few revisions. Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen. 244 |
Cultural formation | Catherine Hutton | CH
grew up in a Dissenting
family which suffered for its beliefs. She had a number of Quaker friends, to whom she unembarrassedly used thou and thee. She wrote that she almost became a... |
Friends, Associates | Ann Jebb | A particular sparring partner of AJ
, who would attack her boldest reasoning, with his quaint and lively repartees, was the young William Paley
, later an eminent theologian. Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol. 7 , pp. 597 - 604, 661. 598 |