Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825)
Autor de Hymns in Prose for Children
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: 1775 Wedgewood cameo of Anna Letitia Barbauld
Obras de Anna Letitia Barbauld
Gothic stories. Sir Bertrand's adventures in a ruinous castle: The story of Fitzalan: The adventure James III. of… (1900) 3 copias
Extracts concerning the importance of religion and public worship to civil society. With remarks 1 copia
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Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765-1840 (1972) — Contribuidor — 81 copias
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- Barbauld, Anna Letitia
- Otros nombres
- Barbauld, Anna Laetitia
Aikin, Anna Letitia
Aikin, Anna Laetitia - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1743-06-20
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1825-03-09
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- England
UK - Lugar de nacimiento
- Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Kibworth-Harcourt, Leicestershire, England, UK (birth)
Palgrave, Suffolk, England, UK
London, England, UK - Educación
- at home
- Ocupaciones
- poet
essayist
literary critic
editor - Relaciones
- Aikin, John (brother)
Aikin, Lucy (niece)
Opie, Amelia (friend) - Organizaciones
- Palgrave Academy
Bluestocking Society - Biografía breve
- Anna Letitia Aikin was the daughter of the headmaster of the Dissenting academy in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, who was also a Presbyterian minister. She was called "Nancy," an 18th-century nickname for Anna, all her life. The family enjoyed a comfortable standard of living. Anna was taught the classics of Latin and Greek and many other subjects at home by her father. In 1773 she published her first book of poetry, and became a respected literary figure as a result. The following year she married Rochemont Barbauld, a grandson of French Huguenots and a former student of her father. The couple established and ran a boarding school at Palgrave, Suffolk. Her Hymns in Prose (1781) were written especially for the students there. Anna Letitia Barbauld had a successful writing career at a time when there were few female professional writers. Her poetry is considered foundational to the development of Romanticism in England. In addition, she wrote radical political pieces, especially at the onset of the French Revolution. An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (1790) shocked readers who discovered that it was produced by a woman. In 1791, she published her Epistle to William Wilberforce Esq,. On the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade. In 1792, she issued an anti-war piece entitled Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation. Anna's husband became violent and died insane in 1808. Her longest poetic work, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812), a gloomy prognosis of the country's current state and future, effectively ended her career because it criticized British involvement in the Napoleonic wars. Anna Letitia Barbauld was largely forgotten until the rise of feminist literary criticism in the 1980s renewed interest in her works and restored her place in literary history.
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- Miembros
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- Popularidad
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- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
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- ISBNs
- 15
The story is very short, but good atmosphere. I wish it was more widely known so I could find someone else's interpretation of the ending. I also question why Bertrand feels the need to investigate the house when he's having miniature heart attacks at every sound. Usually, there's enough context in horror stories for questionable decisions to fit. Still, this is a good, atmospheric oddity.… (más)