Anna Laetitia Barbauld gained prominence in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth century as an educator, through her work as a teacher in the school she and her husband ran for eleven years and through her...

With her first publication, a slender volume titled Poems (1773), Anna Laetitia Aikin became a figure of eminence in the world of letters; she would hold that position until her death--as Anna Laetitia Barbauld--well into the next century. While...

Anna Laetitia Barbauld was one of the most prominent literary figures of her time in England. She was a popular poet, a sharp-witted essayist and literary critic, and a much-beloved author of stories and verse for children. She was acquainted with and...

Anna Laetitia Barbauld established her reputation as an author through her poetry, editing, political tracts, and innovative children's and pedagogical literature. Though she was a Dissenter, and many of her contemporaries did not agree with her...