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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Lucy Aikin
gave it as her opinion in print that EOB
's precarious financial situation made it fortunate for her that she had not lived longer: old age would have found her unprovided. The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 33 vols. 1 n.s., 1827.127 |
| 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, 33 vols. 1 n.s., 1827.126-7 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | She wrote it before the death of Catharine Macaulay
, though it appeared afterwards. Lucy Aikin
said she wrote it at about fifteen, which exaggerates her youth by only a year. The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 33 vols. 1 n.s., 1827.126 |
| 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. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols. 7: 416-17 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Joanna Baillie
chose two of EOB
's poems for inclusion in her Collection of Poems, published in early 1823. Baillie, Joanna, editor. A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Benger was drawn to write of Anne Boleyn not by the personal scandals surrounding her but by her importance to the history of religion. Like her later books about royal personages, this one celebrates the... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Lucy Aikin
said that at the time of her death EOB
was planning to write a comparable volume of memoirs of the time of Henri IV of France
(the former champion of Protestants who converted... |
| Textual Features | Mary Berry | MB
presents the fruits of wide reading in such sources as printed memoirs and letters and even archival collections. Her cultural history was not unique: Lucy Aikin
had set out in 1818 to use a... |
| Literary responses | Mary Berry | The sculptor Richard Westmacott
wrote to MB
expressing regret at the lack of attention paid her historical work, and contrasting it with the fashion for female gothic by, for instance, Charlotte Dacre
(Rosa Matilda... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Cobbold | This collection features poetry by women such as Anna Maria Porter
, Amelia Opie
, Lucy Aikin
, Elizabeth Carter
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Anne Hunter
, Mary RobinsonCharlotte Smith
, and EC
herself. |
| Literary responses | Queen Elizabeth I | The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen... |
| Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | The letters that CF
sent to Anne Grant
are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Fletcher | She received letters of praise and congratulation on this publication from a number of distinguished pens. Anne Grant
wrote characteristically that they far exceeded my expectations. She had expected exalted moral feeling, purity of sentiment... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Hamilton | This was published at Bath and London. EH
did serious historical research for this book, reading all the Roman history she could find in English and even commissioning translations. There was already women's work... |
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