John Aikin

Standard Name: Aikin, John,, the younger
Used Form: Dr John Aikin

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Maria Edgeworth
In January 1797 the Critical Review recorded the widespread opinion that the author of Literary Ladies was John Aikin (brother of Anna Laetitia Barbauld , and a prolific and respected writer on pedagogical and social...
Literary responses Amelia Opie
Barbauld found the poem touchingly picturesque and original; her brother, John Aikin , thought it self-indulgent.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
265
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Letitia Barbauld
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...
Friends, Associates Lucy Aikin
LA , aged eight, met the prison reformer John Howard , who was a friend of her father .
Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green.
xi-xii
Friends, Associates Lucy Aikin
In her memoirs LA claims to have been acquainted with all the notable literary women of her time. She was a close friend of Joanna Baillie and Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger . Another important friend and...
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, p. vii - xxix.
xxvi, ix-x
Her friendship with the...
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Letitia Barbauld
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.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
188
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
xliv
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's beloved brother John Aikin , who had been a support to her for so long, died after failing for several years.
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen.
152
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlvi
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB and her brother John Aikin , who was the younger by three and a half years, were very close all their lives both emotionally and intellectually. They collaborated as writers even when widely separated...
Family and Intimate relationships Lucy Aikin
Her father, John Aikin , was a doctor and writer.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1864) 1: 396

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