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BARBAULD, ANNA LETITIA (1743-1825)

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BARBAULD, See also:ANNA LETITIA (1743-1825) , See also:English poet and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born at Kibworth-See also:Harcourt, in See also:Leicestershire, on the loth of See also:June 1743. Her See also:father, the Rev. See also:John See also:Aikin, a Presbyterian See also:minister and schoolmaster, taught his daughter Latin and See also:Greek. In 1758 Mr Aikin removed his See also:family to See also:Warrington, to See also:act as theological See also:tutor in a dissenting See also:academy there. In 1773 See also:Miss Aikin published a See also:volume of Poems, which was very successful, and co-operated with her See also:brother, Dr John Aikin, in a volume of Miscellaneous Pieces in See also:Prose. In 1774 she married Rochemont Barbauld, a member of a See also:French See also:Protestant family settled in See also:England. He had been educated in- the academy at Warrington, and was minister of a Presbyterian See also:church at See also:Palgrave, in See also:Suffolk, where, with his wife's help, he established a boarding school. Her admirable See also:Hymns in Prose and See also:Early Lessons were written for their pupils. In 1785 she See also:left England for the See also:continent with her See also:husband, whose- See also:health was seriously impaired. On their return abouttwo years later, Mr Barbauld was appointed to a church at See also:Hampstead. In 1802 they removed to Stoke Newington. Mrs Barbauld became well known in See also:London See also:literary circles.

She collaborated with Dr Aikin in his Evenings at See also:

Home; in 1795 she published an edition of See also:Akenside's Pleasures of See also:Imagination, with a See also:critical See also:essay; two years later she edited See also:Collins's Odes; in 1804 she published a selection of papers from the English Essayists, and a selection from See also:Samuel See also:Richardson's See also:correspondence, with a See also:biographical See also:notice; in 1810 a collection of the See also:British Novelists (5o vols.) with biographical and critical notices; and in 1811 her longest poem, Eighteen See also:Hundred and Eleven, giving a gloomy view of the existing See also:state and future prospects of See also:Britain. This poem anticipated See also:Macaulay in contemplating the prospect of a visitor from the See also:antipodes regarding at a future See also:day the ruins of St See also:Paul's from a broken See also:arch of Blackfriars See also:Bridge. Mrs Barbauld died on the 9th of See also:March 1825; her husband had died in 1808. A collected edition of her See also:works, with memoir, was published by her niece, See also:Lucy Aikin, in 2 vols., 1825. See A. L. le See also:Breton, Memoir of Mrs Barbauld (1874) ; G. A. See also:Ellis, See also:Life and Letters of Mrs A. L. Barbauld (1874) ; and See also:Lady See also:Thackeray See also:Ritchie, A See also:Book of Sibyls (1883).

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