Lucy Aikin
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Standard Name: Aikin, Lucy
Birth Name: Lucy Aikin
Pseudonym: L. A.
Pseudonym: Mary Godolphin
Pseudonym: L. A.
LA
's famous relations made her modest about her creative writing. Publishing during the early nineteenth century, she has to her credit a major poem expressing revisionist historical and feminist ideas, and an interesting novel, as well as much biographical and historical scholarship and some writing for children. She was a pioneer in the writing of cultural history concerned with social environment as well as events. A number of her letters were published after her death.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Birth | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
was born at West Camel in Somerset. Lucy Aikin
gave her birthplace as Wells (a larger place, not far away). The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. 1 n.s., 1827.126 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Aikin, Lucy, and Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger. “Memoir of Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger”. Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, 3rdrd ed, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827. |
death | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Lucy Aikin
wrote an obituary of her for the first number of the Monthly Repository, The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. 1 n.s., 1827.126-7 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Rochemont Barbauld
came from a French Huguenot family and had a strong foreign accent as a result of spending his childhood abroad. He was ALB
's junior by six years, small in stature, emotionally unstable... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB
was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley
, who had already... |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | Dr William Ellery Channing
, an American Unitarian
and friend of Lucy Aikin
, met and befriended FK
. His views came to influence hers. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977. 93 |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | Over the course of her long life JB
made dozens of well-loved friends, many of them either professional writers like herself or else writing amateurs. They included Lucy Aikin
, Mary Berry
, Eliza Fletcher |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | Anna Letitia Barbauld
visited HM
's mother from time to time. HM was impressed by the stamp of superiority on all she said. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983. 1: 302 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The literary society of ALB
's time was, as biographer Betsy Rodgers notes, small and intimate. Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958. 80 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | Barbara Hoole engages her reader through expressions both of emotion and of opinion. Though she handles some political topics (rejoicing, for instance, at the peace of Amiens in 1802), she is preoccupied by the personal... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | MAK
's opinions are always idiosyncratic and interesting, but she is not a feminist. She quotes Lucy Aikin
on being wounded by the privileged insolence of masculine discourse, Kelty, Mary Ann. The Solace of a Solitaire. Trübner and Co., 1869. 332 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Wentworth Morton | The title-page quotes romantic, melancholy lines from Byron
's Childe Harold. Bottorff, William K., and Sarah Wentworth Morton. “Introduction”. My Mind and its Thoughts, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1975, pp. 5 - 16. 12 |
Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Chief Justice of Ceylon, Sir Alexander Johnstone
, asked that two of JB
's last plays be translated into Singalese.One—The Bride, A Tragedy (published in summer 1828), had a Singalese subject. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 38 (1828): 602 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | The notice in the Analytical Review, which may have been written by Wollstonecraft
, is curiously unenthusiastic. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Todd, Janet and Marilyn ButlerEditors , Pickering, 1989. 7: 416-17 |
Literary responses | Lucy Toulmin Smith | As an anonymous writer for the Times rather oddly phrased it in an obituary, LTS
's services to English scholarship and literature were altogether out of proportion to her notoriety. “Miss Lucy Toulmin Smith”. Times, No. 39774, p. 11. 39774 (1911):11 |
Timeline
9 September 1803
The first number appeared of the Annual Review, a Dissenting periodical run by Lucy Aikin
's brother Arthur Aikin
, which had been planned in 1802.
By Christmas 1869
Francis Galton
, mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,