Rochemont Barbauld

Anna Aikin (later ALB ) met her future husband in Warrington when he was admitted as a student to the Warrington Academy .

Rochement was minister to a Dissenting congregation while they ran the school. During the school holidays (the month of June, slightly extended, plus Christmas) he and ALB frequently went to London to see...

Anna Aikin and Rochemont Barbauld were married in the parish church (the Anglican church) of Warrington by Rochemont's father.

During the 1790s Rochemont Barbauld 's behaviour became increasingly restless and what would today be called manic. He developed a habit of compulsive washing and suspected a non-existent conspiracy on the part of someone to...

Since she and her husband were so far childless (as they remained), ALB adopted her brother 's third son, Charles Rochemont Aikin , to bring up as her own.

For this her great support and encouragement was her brother (as he, rather than her husband , continued to be for her later publications). After he left home to pursue his studies, she sent him...

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