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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Aikin | LA
was Anna Letitia Barbauld
's niece. She regarded the literary careers of her aunt and her father with great admiration. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. (1864) 1: 396 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hester Mulso Chapone | The shock was terrible to her; her long-continued grief and mourning would be thought by many people exaggerated. There were rumours that she had not been happy in her marriage. These were vigorously denied by... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
's great-grandfather, her mother's grandfather, was the famous Radical and Unitarian scientist Joseph Priestley
, sometimes referred to as the father of modern chemistry. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 36 Markel, Michael H. Hilaire Belloc. Twayne, 1982. 1 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
's father, John Coltman
, had been taught by John Aikin
(father of Anna Letitia Barbauld
). He was an industrialist engaged in the manufacture of worsteds (material from which stockings were made), with... |
| Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | AO
's friendship with Anne
and Annabella Plumptre
(daughters of Robert Plumptre
, Prebend of Norwich, both of whom grew up to be writers) dated from their shared childhood. Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix. xxvi, ix-x |
| Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | In London she met many artists, writers, and politically active reformists: as well as Godwin
, she met Elizabeth Inchbald
, Mary Wollstonecraft
(who impressed her deeply, and trusted her enough to confide her plans... |
| Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | Over the course of her long life JB
made dozens of well-loved friends, many of them either professional writers like herself or else writing amateurs. They included Lucy Aikin
, Mary Berry
, Eliza Fletcher |
| Friends, Associates | Ann Taylor Gilbert | Ann was sorry that Joanna Baillie
had left Colchester before theTaylors arrived there; but her intense, but humble, yearnings to encounter a live author Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N . 1: 182 |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | On her first visit to London, EF
met Joanna Baillie
(with whom her friendship endured for years) and Anna Letitia Barbauld
. Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874. 71 |
| Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | Scott was in London in February this year. She corresponded with him for years, discussing their own and others' literary works along with family news. Baillie tried tactfully to explain to him the right way... |
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | Anna Letitia Barbauld
visited HM
's mother from time to time. HM was impressed by the stamp of superiority on all she said. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols. 1: 302 |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Edgeworth | In London on this visit ME
found comparatively little to interest her. She did, however, visit her publisher Joseph Johnson
, whose support for radical writings had put him in the King's Bench Prison... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Wollstonecraft | Newington Green was a fortunate place for MW
to have settled: it was a centre of intellectual Dissent. There she met the radical minister Richard Price
, the poet Samuel Rogers
, and the teacher... |
| Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | LA
, dining with Walter Scott
, was pleased that though she herself went unnoticed, Scott devoted considerable attention to her aunt Barbauld
. Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters. Editor Le Breton, Philip Hemery, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. 98-9 |
Timeline
1793: The liberal Dissenter Benjamin Flowers launched...
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1793
The liberal Dissenter Benjamin Flowers
launched a periodical, the Cambridge Intelligencer; it ran until December 1800.
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38. 35n8, 36n20
After 1 February 1793: An organisation calling itself the Friends...
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After 1 February 1793
An organisation calling itself the Friends of Peace
began campaigning in tracts and pamphlets against the war with France (declared on this day).
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38. 23-4, 37
February 1796: The Monthly Magazine: or British Register,...
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February 1796
The Monthly Magazine: or British Register, edited by Anna Letitia Barbauld
's brother John Aikin
, began publication.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
370-3
By 22 July 1797: William Beckford published a second and more...
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By 22 July 1797
William Beckford
published a second and more marked burlesque attack on women's writing: Azemia: A Descriptive and Sentimental Novel. Interspersed with Pieces of Poetry.
Beckford, William. Azemia. Sampson Low, 1797, 2 vols.
1: 21; 2: 43, 61, 236ff
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 20 (1797): 470
1801: The Quaker Joseph Lancaster opened his non-sectarian...
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1801
The QuakerJoseph Lancaster
opened his non-sectarian Free School in Borough Road in south-east London; he soon had a thousand pupils.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
78-81
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
376
December 1802: The Critical Review extolled the quality...
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December 1802
The Critical Review extolled the quality of contemporary women's poetry: Miss Seward
, Mrs Barbauld
, Charlotte Smith
, will take their place among the English poets for centuries to come.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 36 (1802): 413
9 September 1803: The first number appeared of the Annual Review,...
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9 September 1803
The first number appeared of the Annual Review, a Dissenting periodical run by Lucy Aikin
's brother Arthur Aikin
, which had been planned in 1802.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33. 531n25
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
411
January 1806: The Monthly Repository, a Dissenting magazine,...
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January 1806
The Monthly Repository, a Dissenting magazine, began publication in London, edited by Robert Aspland
.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33. 531n25
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
January 1807-June 1809: John Aikin (Anna Letitia Barbauld's brother)...
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January 1807-June 1809
John Aikin
(Anna Letitia Barbauld
's brother) ran a Dissenting periodical, The Athenæum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33. 531n25
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
6 November 1817: Princess Charlotte died at 2.30 a.m. after...
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6 November 1817
Princess Charlotte
died at 2.30 a.m. after delivering a stillborn son. Poor clinical judgement was to blame; intense national mourning and controversy followed.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
142-4
Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
205
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
241-2
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
2 (1817): 449
Early 1818: William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets,...
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Early 1818
William Hazlitt
opened On the Living Poets, the last of his Lectures on the English Poets, with a statement on gender issues.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
112
By January 1821: Ballantyne's Novelists Library began publication;...
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By January 1821
Ballantyne's Novelists Library began publication; it was completed in 1824.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
24 (1821): 57
1868: Emily Taylor (1795-18), who is remembered...
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1868
Emily Taylor
(1795-18), who is remembered for books connected with her school-teaching career, published Memories of some Contemporary Poets, with Selections from their Writings, with a good representation of women among her subjects (from...
By Christmas 1869: Francis Galton, mathematician, scientist,...
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By Christmas 1869
Francis Galton
, mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,
Saturday Review. Chawton.
28.739 (25 December 1869): 832-3
Texts
Barbauld, Anna Letitia. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld. Editors McCarthy, William and Elizabeth Kraft, University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Collins, William, poet. The Poetical Works of William Collins. Editor Barbauld, Anna Letitia, T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1797.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia. The Religion of Nature. Printed for the Benefit of the Distressed Spital-Field Weavers, 1793.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia. The Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld. Editor Aikin, Lucy, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825, 2 vol.