Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Standard Name: Barbauld, Anna Letitia
Birth Name: Anna Letitia Aikin
Nickname: Nancy
Married Name: Anna Letitia Barbauld
Pseudonym: A Dissenter
Pseudonym: A Volunteer
Pseudonym: Bob Short
Used Form: Mrs Barbauld
Used Form: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
ALB
, writing and publishing in the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century, was a true woman of letters, an important poet, revered as mouthpiece or laureate for Rational Dissent. Her ground-breaking work on literary, political, social, and other intellectual topics balances her still better-known pedagogical works and writings for the very young. During her lifetime an extraordinary revolution in public opinion made her vilified as markedly as she had been revered.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | Hester Mulso Chapone | Anna Letitia Barbauld
wrote her obituary for the Monthly Magazine. |
Education | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
received lessons from her nurse Martha Jones
and from her mother
. Her reading included Sarah Trimmer
's History of the Robins, Anna Barbauld
's Lessons for Children, and poetry by Jane Taylor |
Education | Mary Howitt | They seem to have made some stops on the way, since Mary says they travelled across a country loud with celebrations of George III's Jubilee (whose date was 25 October). At this school, where other... |
Education | Georgiana Fullerton | She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld
and Maria Edgeworth
. Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean
play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later... |
Education | Anne Marsh | At probably four years old AM
read Anna Letitia Barbauld
's Lessons for Children (a composite title for her various books for the very young). With her reader Anne Caldwell, Barbauld achieved her aim of... |
Education | Elizabeth Gaskell | Until the age of eleven, Elizabeth was taught at home by her Aunt Hannah Lumb
. As befitting the Unitarian emphasis on personal freedom and rationality, she read widely, and was encouraged to make her... |
Education | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | Her home learning had begun well before this: a very early text in her life was Anna Letitia Barbauld
's Hymns in Prose for Children, which her mother used to read with her. Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Hankin, Christiana C.Editor , Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. 1: 5 |
Education | Harriet Martineau | |
Education | Anna Brownell Jameson | Anna was educated by Miss Yokeley
, a governess, who taught her French. After the departure of Miss Yokeley, some time between 1803 and 1806, Anna acted as governess to her sisters. She also taught... |
Education | Lucy Aikin | LA
was educated at home by her mother. Because she did not learn to read as quickly as others in the family, her grandmother (who fondly remembered the unequalled early brilliance of her own daughter,... |
Education | Mary Louisa Molesworth | Educated privately at home, MLM
could not remember a time before she could read, nor any time when reading stories was not my greatest delight. Green, Roger Lancelyn. Mrs. Molesworth. Bodley Head, 1961. 21 |
Education | Anna Sewell | For most of her childhood, AS
was educated at home by her mother, as the Sewell family could not afford formal training for either of the children. Mary Sewell
believed strongly in the Edgeworth
s'... |
Education | Mary Lamb | It is not clear whether ML
shared her brother Charles's contempt for didactic children's books which stuff the child with insignificant & vapid knowledge instead of appealing to the imagination, which BLIGHTS & BLASTS... |
Education | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
later remembered her responsibility, when very young, of escorting her two next younger brothers to their school. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896. 10 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Martineau | HM
's father, Thomas Martineau
(1764 - 1826), had been educated at Palgrave School
by Rochemont
and Anna Letitia Barbauld
(to whose teaching Harriet ascribed his sound radical and Unitarian principles). He became a manufacturer... |
Timeline
August 1715
Isaac Watts
published DivineSongs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children.
18 June 1744
John Newbery
advertised his Little Pretty Pocket Book, one of the first books aimed at delighting children while instructing them.
1762-December 1772
Under the auspices of the third Duke of Bridgewater
, a canal was built connecting Manchester with Liverpool (about 56 miles).
8 May 1769
The independence struggle of Corsica against the Republic of Genoa ended in defeat by the French at Pontenuovo.
July 1773
The Westminster Magazine printed, along with its account of Oxford University
's annual degree-giving, an article by L. P.On the Propriety of Bestowing Academical Honours on the Ladies.
April 1774
The Monthly Review, in a notice on Hannah More
's The Inflexible Captive, quoted some lines which transform the Muses from ancient Greece into the living female poets of Britain.
1777
Richard Samuel
engraved his Nine Living Muses of Great Britain (or Portraits in the Character of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo) for Johnson's Ladies New and Polite Pocket Memorandum for 1778...
January 1781-December 1782
The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties of British Poetry appeared, published by James Harrison
in four half-yearly numbers; it is arguable whether or not it kept the first number's promise of generous selections of work...
1785
Dialogues Concerning the Ladies, a celebration of famous women, was anonymously published; it borrows from Ballard
's Memoirs of Eminent Ladies.
April 1789
2 March 1790
Charles James Fox
proposed in the House of Commons
the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (instruments of discrimination against Dissenters
). Next day his motion was voted down (its third rejection in four years).
Late 1790
William Holland
published a print of Burke
running the gauntlet of enemies with whips: women as well as men.
1791
Gilbert Wakefield
published An Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship, whose arguments were challenged in different ways by Anna Letitia Barbauld
and Mary Hays
.
19 April 1791
Wilberforce
's motion to abolish the slave-trade (put on 18 April) was defeated in the House of Commons
.
14 June 1792
The title of radical novelist Robert Bage
's anonymous Man As He Is, published this day, suggests the unpalatable truths revealed by reformers or satirists; it influenced later titles chosen by William Godwin
and others.