Rochemont Barbauld

The young Samuel Taylor Coleridge walked forty miles in order to meet ALB and her husband . He had already been influenced by her poetry, and she had reviewed his.

Rochemont Barbauld violently assaulted ALB when she intervened to try to speed up the compulsive washing which was making him late for an appointment.

ALB reported that her insane husband 's affection for her was gone, replaced by a violent antipathy. In response to her family's anxiety he went away, to try the experiment of temporary separation.

ALB 's husband drowned himself in the New River on a wild and rainy night. He had made his will ten days before this, leaving everything to her. His body was found next day in...

ALB addressed to her husband a love-poem of tender intimacy, an exhortation to be cheerful and to disregard the world's criticism.

Monthly Repository published ALB 's Memoir of the Rev. R. Barbauld.

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...