John Aikin

She wrote for other periodicals as well. From 1803 she reviewed poetry and belles lettres for the Annual Review, edited by her nephew Arthur Aikin , though few of her contributions are identified. For...

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.

ALB 's beloved brother John Aikin , who had been a support to her for so long, died after failing for several years.

Anna Aikin (later ALB ) first reached print with songs contributed to her brother John 's first literary production, Essays on Song-Writing.

Anna Aikin (later ALB ) joined with her brother John in Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, in which her seven contributions and his four were not distinguished by name.

Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld and her brother , Ann Jebb , the future Amelia Opie , Anna Maria Porter , Mary Wollstonecraft and her sister, Mary Hays and her sister, a Mrs Spence who...

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...

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. Her friendship with the...

Barbauld found the poem touchingly picturesque and original; her brother, John Aikin , thought it self-indulgent.

Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone , John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld (Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson , Elizabeth Carter , Hester Thrale ,...