The Rev. Dr Samuel Cooper (husband of the novelist Maria Susanna Cooper
) also knew LA
when she was a girl. He thought her very intelligent and preferred to talk to her at a party...
Dedications
Lucy Aikin
It was published by Joseph JohnsonJoseph Johnson
and dedicated to Aikin's friend born Anna Wakefield
(who had married her brother Charles Rochemont Aikin
, the one among Lucy's brothers whom their aunt Anna Letitia Barbauld had...
