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.
xxviii
She herself, however, said it was Joseph Priestley
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