Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, p. vii - xxix.
xxvi, ix-x
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Tabitha Tenney | 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
,... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
Publishing | Ann Batten Cristall | 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... |
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 |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Anna Aikin (later ALB
) first reached print with songs contributed to her brother John
's first literary production, Essays on Song-Writing. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 107n28 McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xliii-xliv, 248 |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | 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. The tale of Sir Bertrand (part... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
collaborated with her brother
again in volumes 1 and 2 of his Evenings at Home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened, which reached six volumes in 1796. Her fourteen items (among nearly a hundred)... |
Publishing | Anna Letitia Barbauld | While ALB
's brother John
was editor of the Monthly Magazine; she contributed to it at least fifteen poems and essays, perhaps many more. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xlv McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 372 |
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... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's niece
wrote of her (with an echo of Pope
on himself) that while yet a child, she was surprised to find herself a poet. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xxviii |
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... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Two years after her marriage ALB
proposed in jest to her brother
that they should cobble together their written fragments for a publication to be called Joineriana. She had no time, she said, to... |