Her father, William Woodfall
, parliamentary reporter and theatre critic, moved to London from Scotland after his marriage. He died on 1 August in 1803, the year that Sophia made her stage debut and published...
Literary responses
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Excellent reviews included William Woodfall
decisively classifying the sister as of a higher genius than the brother.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Johnson
(a frequent target of parodists) thought ALB
's the best imitation of him that he had...
