The Critical Review praised the work, not as great poetry but for its information, good sense, and justness of thinking. It put forward gendered reasons for its praise: not gallantry, but because we are happy...
Textual Production
Lucy Aikin
Her model for this genre was Elizabeth Hamilton
, but the influence of Catharine Macaulay
is discerned by Karen O'Brien
in Aikin's Whig positioning and in her self-confidently judgemental tone.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press.
