Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Heyrick, Elizabeth. Familiar Letters Addressed to Children and Young Persons of the Middle Ranks. Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1811.
title-page
which means she took the risk and would keep the profit after paying her publisher, Darton, Harvey and Darton
. (A Leicester bookseller was also listed on...
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,
qtd. in
Kelty, Mary Ann. The Solace of a Solitaire. Trübner and Co., 1869.
Blain, Virginia et al., 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.
Barbauld's niece Lucy Aikin
was another family friend. One acquaintance...
Textual Production
Harriet Martineau
Her older friend Lucy Aikin
considered the scheme presumptuous and composed a letter to HM
advising her to abandon it for humbler tasks more appropriate to her age and gender, but she held off sending...
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.
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An Apology closing the volume speaks of SWM
's disappointments and distresses (which are often mentioned, though unspecified, in her work) especially...
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.
ES
duly began writing for children and editing a periodical, but this was a temporary measure. They formed the intention of publishing historical memoirs or biographies. (Both biography collections and the memoir as a new...
Textual Features
Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...
