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Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Sign in to saveAlso known as Anna Laetitia Aiken, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Anna Lætitia Barbauld, Ann Letitia Barbauld, Anna (Laetitia) Barbauld
English author (1743–1825)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1743
- Died
- 1825
- Works
- 166
Top works
- Hymns in prose por[!] children
- Poems
- Leçons pour les enfans
- Leçons pour les enfans de trois à huit ans
- Gl' inni Giovanili
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.
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- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
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- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
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Quotes
- “Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?”
- “Man is the nobler growth our realms supply,And souls are ripen'd in our northern sky.”
- “O gently guide my pilgrim feetTo find thy hermit cell;Where in some pure and equal skyBeneath thy soft indulgent eyeThe modest virtues dwell.”
- “It is to hope, tho' hope were lost.”
- “Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew,In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew.[…]Gay without toil, and lovely without art,They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the heart.”
- “I read his awful name, emblazon'd highWith golden letters on th' illumin'd sky.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Anna Laetitia Aikin , 20 June 1743, Kibworth-Harcourt, Leicestershire , England
- Died
- 9 March 1825 (1825-03-09) (aged 81), Stoke Newington , England
- Occupation
- Writer poet
- Subject
- Reform education Christianity history
- Spouse
- Rochemont Barbauld ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1774 ; died 1808 )
- Relatives
- Lucy Aikin (niece) , Anna Letitia Le Breton (great niece)
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Anna Laetitia Barbauld, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (/bɑːrˈboʊld/, by herself possibly /bɑːrˈboʊ/, as in French, née Aikin; 20 June 1743 – 9 March 1825) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature. A prominent member of the Blue Stockings Society and a "woman of letters" who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career that spanned more than half a century.
She was a noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy and an innovative writer of works for children. Her primers provided a model for more than a century. Her essays showed it was possible for a woman to be engaged in the public sphere; other women authors such as Elizabeth Benger emulated her. Barbauld's literary career spanned numerous periods in British literary history: her work promoted the values of the enlightenment and of sensibility, while her poetry made a founding contribution to the development of British Romanticism. Barbauld was also a literary critic. Her anthology of 18th-century novels helped to establish the canon as it is known today.
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