Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
In July 1804 ME
proposed to Anna Letitia Barbauld
a scheme for a periodical to be written both for and by women. The timing, however, was unfortunate, and Barbauld declined.
Manly, Susan. “Maria Edgeworth (1768-1846)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol.
10
, No. 2, pp. 1-3.
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McCarthy, William. “Why Anna Letitia Barbauld Refused to Head a Women’s College: New Facts, New Story”. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol.
23
, No. 3, pp. 349-79.
351-2
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Elizabeth Hamilton
EH
would clearly have been unable, for health reasons, to participate in the abortive Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
very shortly before Hamilton died—a projected women's periodical, which was to bear EH
's...
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Elizabeth Carter
Anna Letitia Barbauld
first revealed that EC
wrote five paragraphs (regarded as authoritative) in a conversational debate among characters in Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison on Man's usurpation, and woman's natural independency.
Richardson, Samuel. Sir Charles Grandison. Editor Harris, Jocelyn, Oxford University Press.
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Maria Edgeworth
The Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
on 13 June this year, for a women's periodical bearing the names of ME
, BarbauldInchbald
, and Hamilton
, seems not to have materialised. It...
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Lucy Aikin
Though LA
continued to write for children, and edited various writings by her aunt
and her father
, she did not think of herself as a writer in the same sense that they were. Her...
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Susanna Haswell Rowson
The London edition, from William Lane's Minerva Press, appeared in probably late 1799 (without the author's preface). A scholarly edition by Joseph F. Bartolomeo
came out in 2009.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
These were collected in her next volume, Translations. Hemans joined a number of other women who had lamented the death of the princess in childbirth on 6 November 1817: Margaret Croker
, Susanna Watts
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Lucy Aikin
LA
memoir of Anna Letitia Barbauld
, in her edition of Barbauld's Works, June 1825, represents a well-planned if largely unsuccessful attempt to establish and preserve Barbauld's reputation after systemic attack by political conservatives...
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Charlotte Nooth
His De la littérature des Nègres in its original form reflects internationalism, anglophilia, and perhaps even proto-feminism. The title-page quotes Mary Robinson
. The roll of honour of white activists for abolition and racial equality...
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, pp. 285-7.
289
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Elizabeth Cobbold
EC
read Anna Letitia Barbauld
's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven and said it was only the more dangerous on account of its poetical excellence.
Feminist Companion Archive.
She was a subscriber for Mary Sewell
in 1803. As well...
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Eliza Fenwick
Another of EF
's children's books, Lessons for Children, first appeared in 1809 and went through a number of editions as well as a French translation published by M. J. Godwin
in 1820.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Sarah Trimmer
ST
's Little Spelling Book for Young Children (designed, she said, to teach the user enough to read Barbauld
's Lessons for Children) reached a second edition by August 1786. As a kind of...
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Elizabeth Inchbald
EI
, or others involved, must have declined to participate in the Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
on 13 June 1816, for a women's periodical intended to bear the names of Inchbald, Barbauld
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Maria Edgeworth
ME
revised Belinda for inclusion in A. L. Barbauld
's series of The British Novelists.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
