Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Marsh | Anne Caldwell believed that her father, James
, was the fourth baby that his parents had christened by this name: all the rest died as infants. The son of a Scottish tradesman settled in England... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Austin | Her great grandfather, Dr John Taylor
, was the pastor of a Presbyterian church in Norwich, the author of a celebrated polemical work on The Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin(1738), Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The Rev. John Aikin
, ALB
's father, was appointed tutor in languages and belles lettres at the newly opened Dissenting Warrington Academy
, in Warrington, Lancashire. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi. xliii Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. A Book of Sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Miss Austen. Smith, Elder, 1883. 10 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's father, the Rev. John Aikin
, took over the post of tutor in divinity at Warrington Academy
, on the death of Dr John Taylor
of Norwich. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi. xliii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Anna Aikin (later ALB
) met her future husband
in Warrington when he was admitted as a student to the Warrington Academy
. Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958. 62 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Rochemont Barbauld
came from a French Huguenot family and had a strong foreign accent as a result of spending his childhood abroad. He was ALB
's junior by six years, small in stature, emotionally unstable... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Her close friends at this period included Mary
and Joseph Priestley
and a number of young women of her own age. She was particularly attracted by a pair of sisters who got themselves barred from... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | William Enfield
quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy
. Her volume... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | ME
's overall pedagogic project (shared with her father) was a programmatic rejection Butler, Marilyn. “Edgeworth’s Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795-1801”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, 1996, pp. 75-93. 82 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Wollstonecraft | The full title is The Female Reader: or, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Best Writers, and Disposed under Proper Heads; for the Improvement of Young Women. MW
said she had... |
| Occupation | Lucy Toulmin Smith | Manchester College (now Harris Manchester College
) had a long and distinguished history as a Dissenting institution (including spells at York and London) before it moved to Oxford in 1889 and into new buildings... |
| Occupation | Anna Letitia Barbauld | One of her occupations here was making portrait silhouettes of friends, Warrington citizens, and staff and students at the Academy
. More than fifty are known. To some silhouettes she added appropriate mottoes, quotations, or... |
| Residence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | From her late teens and through her twenties Anna Aikin flourished in the rich intellectual and cultural soil of Warrington, on the Cheshire edge of Lancashire, a port town on the River Mersey in... |
Timeline
1758: At about the date of the founding of the...
Writing climate item
1758
At about the date of the founding of the Warrington Academy
, the Dissenter William Eyres
set up a family printing press at Warrington in Lancashire.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33. 512
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