BRP
's great-grandfather, her mother's grandfather, was the famous Radical and Unitarian scientist Joseph Priestley
, sometimes referred to as the father of modern chemistry.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
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Markel, Michael H. Hilaire Belloc. Twayne, 1982.
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He and his wife, Mary Wilkinson Priestley
Friends, Associates
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Her close friends at this period included Mary
and Joseph Priestley
and a number of young women of her own age. She was particularly attracted by a pair of sisters who got themselves barred from...
Intertextuality and Influence
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.
qtd. in
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
Anna Aikin (later ALB
) wrote On Mrs P—
's Leaving Warrington, one of her earliest important surviving poems, which she threw into the carriage that was to carry the Priestleys away to Joseph
Textual Production
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Most of ALB
's manuscripts perished in the bombing of London in September 1940. This followed on earlier calamities: the destruction of her juvenile poems (in an album kept by Mary Priestley
) in the...