John Aikin

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...

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

LA , aged eight, met the prison reformer John Howard , who was a friend of her father .

After her father 's death, LA and her mother lived in Hampstead until her mother too died.

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

Her father, John Aikin , was a doctor and writer.

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.

At the time of their move to Stoke Newington, LA took on the task of caring for her father , who had been somewhat disabled physically (though not mentally) by a stroke. He relied on...

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...

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...