John Aikin

Her father retired in that year, and the family moved for the benefit of his health. They stayed there until just after his death in late 1822.

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 ,...

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)...

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. She herself, however, said it was Joseph Priestley

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...

LA published a biography of her father : Memoir of John Aikin, M.D.

Joseph Johnson did not advertise this work, yet an edition was printed as far away as Dundee. It was popularly priced at sixpence, six months before Hannah More 's Village Politics and nearly three...

Though LA continued to write for children, and edited various writings by her aunt and her father , she did not think of herself as a writer in the same sense that they were. Her...

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.