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Author: Barbauld, Anna Laetitia

Biography:

BARBAULD, Anna Laetitia, formerly Aikin (1743-1825: ODNB)

Poet, essayist, educator. Daughter of John Aikin, DD, and Jane (Jennings) Aikin. Her father was a tutor in the dissenting academy at Warrington, Leics.; he taught her Latin and some Greek, and she was a voracious reader. With the encouragement and sometimes the collaboration of her brother John, she began early to publish poems and essays, ranging from the burlesque through the political to the devotional. She married a graduate of the academy, the Rev. Rochemont Barbauld, in 1772, and together they ran a successful boys' school in Palgrave, Suffolk: her best-known writings were contributions to early-childhood education arising from her experience there. After her husband's death by suicide in 1808 she undertook an edition of novels in English, The British Novelists, in 50 volumes (1810). Part of a close-knit family, she also had a wide literary acquaintance, particularly in dissenting circles. (RPW; ODNB 6 Nov. 2017)

 

Other Names:

  • A. L. Barbauld
  • Anna Laetitia Aikin, i.e. Mrs. Barbauld
  • Anna Letitia Barbauld
  • Barbauld
  • Mrs. Barbauld
 

Books written (44):

London: Joseph Johnson, 1773
London: Joseph Johnson, 1773
3rd edn. London: Joseph Johnson, 1773
4th edn. London: Joseph Johnson, 1774
4th edn. Dublin: H. Saunders and W. Sleater, 1774
5th edn. London: Joseph Johnson, 1777
London: Printed by J. Roach, at the Britannia Printing Office: Weburn Street, New Drury Theatre Royal, 1794[-95]
London: J. Mawman, 1795 [the author states in the
Manchester: [Printed by G. Nicholson, sold by T. Knott and by Champante and Whitrow in London], 1797
Manchester/ London: printed by G. Nicholson/T. Knott and Champante and Whitrow, 1798
Ludlow/ London: G. Nicholson/ T. Knott, and Champante and Whitrow, 1800
London: Taylor and Wilks, Chancery-lane, 1802
1st American from the London edn. Boston/ Philadelphia: Bradford and Read/ Anthony Finley, 1812
Philadelphia/ New York/ Baltimore/ Pittsburgh [PA]/ Frankfort [KY]: Anthony Finley/ Farrand, Hopkins, and Co./ A. Miltenberger, George Hill, and Joseph Cushing/ Cramer, Spear, and Eichbaum/ Alexander Montgomery, 1812
London/ Norwich: Darton, Harvey, and Darton/ Wilkin and Youngman, 1818
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823
London: printed by Richard Edwards, 1824
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826
2nd edn. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826
New York: G. and C. Carvill, W. B. Gilley, Collins and Co., S. C. Schenck, Collins and Hannay, E. Bliss, H. I. Megary, G. Long, R. Lockwood, G. C. Morgan, and J. A. Burtus, 1826
Boston: David Reed, 1826
New York: G. and C. Carvill, E. Bliss and E. White, Collins and Hannay, S. C. Schenck, Collins and Co., H. I. Megary, G. Long, W. B. Gilley, S. B. Collins, R. Lockwood, J. F. Sibell, G. C. Morgan, and J. A. Burtus, 1826
Royston/ London: John Warren/ Thomas Hurst, Edward Chance and Co., 1828
Liverpool: Thos. Kaye, 1834