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) HJ
Other Names:
- A. L. Barbauld
- Anna Laetitia Aikin, i.e. Mrs. Barbauld
- Anna Letitia Barbauld
- Barbauld
- Mrs. Barbauld
Books written (64):
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: Flexney, [1780]
London: Kearsley, 1789
New edn. London: [no publisher: "printed and sold by" Darton and Harvey], 1791
London: J. Johnson, 1791
2nd edn. London: J. Johnson, 1791
New edn. London: Joseph Johnson, 1792
London: Printed by J. Roach, at the Britannia Printing Office: Weburn Street, New Drury Theatre Royal, 1794[-95]
New edn. London: [no publisher: printed and sold by Darton and Harvey], 1795
London: J. Mawman, 1795
New edn. Dublin: [no publisher; printed by John Gough], 1796
New edn. London: Darton and Harvey, 1797
Manchester: [Printed by G. Nicholson, sold by T. Knott and by Champante and Whitrow in London], 1797
Manchester/ London: [no publisher: sold by Knott/ Champante and Whitrow, 1797
London: Symonds, [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
[London]: James Cundee, 1807
London: J. Johnson, 1812
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
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1812
Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1814
London: R. Miller, Whittingham and Arliss, [1814?]
London: Printed for E. Wilson, 1818
London/ Norwich: Darton, Harvey, and Darton/ Wilkin and Youngman, 1818
Philadelphia: printed by Clark and Raser, 1819
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1820
Brussels: printed at the British Press...Rue Verte, near the Place Royale., [1820?]
Glasgow: J. Lumsden, 1820
Glasgow: printed by J. Lumsden and Son, [1820?]
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823
London: printed by Richard Edwards, 1824
Chiswick: Printed by C. and C. Whittingham, College House, Sold by Thomas Tegg, 1824
Chiswick/ London/ Glasgow: printed by C. and C. Whittingham/ Thomas Tegg and R. Jennings/ Richard Griffin and Co., 1824
Woodbridge: B. Smith, 1824
London: W. Jones and W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1825
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
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
Glasgow/ Edinburgh/ Dublin/ London: William Collins/ William Whyte and Co., and William Oliphant/ R. M. Tims and Wm. Curry, Jr., and Co./ G. B. Whittaker, 1827
2nd edn. Glasgow/ Edinburgh/ Dublin/ London: Willliam Collins/ William Whyte and Co. and Wm. Oliphant/ R. M. Tims and Wm. Curry, Jr., and Co./ G. B. Whittaker, 1827
Philadelphia: R. H. Small, 1828
Glasgow/ Edinburgh: Blackie, Fullarton, and Co./ A. Fullarton and Co., 1828
Royston/ London: John Warren/ Thomas Hurst, Edward Chance and Co., 1828
3rd edn. Glasgow/ Edinburgh/ Dublin/ London: William Collins/ William Whyte and Co. and Wm. Oliphant/ R. M. Tims and Wm. Curry, Jr./ G. B. Whittaker, and Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1828
3rd edn. Philadelphia: R. H. Small, 1828
2nd edn. London/ Wellington, Salop: Houlston and Son/ [no publisher], 1829
1st American edn. Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1829
Bristol: 1831
London: Tilt, 1831
Liverpool: Thos. Kaye, 1834
London: Holdsworth and Ball, Paternoster Row, 1835