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Lucy Aikin
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Standard Name: Aikin, Lucy
Birth Name: Lucy Aikin
Pseudonym: L. A.
Pseudonym: Mary Godolphin
Pseudonym: L. A.
LA
's famous relations made her modest about her creative writing. Publishing during the early nineteenth century, she has to her credit a major poem expressing revisionist historical and feminist ideas, and an interesting novel, as well as much biographical and historical scholarship and some writing for children. She was a pioneer in the writing of cultural history concerned with social environment as well as events. A number of her letters were published after her death.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Reviews were mixed, some praising her for accuracy and good judgement as a biographer, some doubting the value of the letters, and some employing a vocabulary of delicacy and related terms which was becoming de... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Fletcher | She received letters of praise and congratulation on this publication from a number of distinguished pens. Anne Grant
wrote characteristically that they far exceeded my expectations. She had expected exalted moral feeling, purity of sentiment... |
| Literary responses | Lucy Toulmin Smith | As an anonymous writer for the Times rather oddly phrased it in an obituary, LTS
's services to English scholarship and literature were altogether out of proportion to her notoriety. “Miss Lucy Toulmin Smith”. Times, No. 39774, 21 Dec. 1911, p. 11. 39774 (1911):11 |
| Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Chief Justice of Ceylon, Sir Alexander Johnstone
, asked that two of JB
's last plays be translated into Singalese.One—The Bride, A Tragedy (published in summer 1828), had a Singalese subject. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 38 (1828): 602 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | The notice in the Analytical Review, which may have been written by Wollstonecraft
, is curiously unenthusiastic. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols. 7: 416-17 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | She wrote it before the death of Catharine Macaulay
, though it appeared afterwards. Lucy Aikin
said she wrote it at about fifteen, which exaggerates her youth by only a year. The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 33 vols. 1 n.s., 1827.126 |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Strickland | ES
duly began writing for children and editing a periodical, but this was a temporary measure. They formed the intention of publishing historical memoirs or biographies. (Both biography collections and the memoir as a new... |
| Occupation | Anna Letitia Barbauld | At some time before November 1773, while the engaged pair were casting around for a means of earning money, Countess Spencer
(perhaps, but only perhaps, with the support of Elizabeth Montagu
, and quite possibly... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Joanna Baillie
chose two of EOB
's poems for inclusion in her Collection of Poems, published in early 1823. Baillie, Joanna, editor. A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Benger was drawn to write of Anne Boleyn not by the personal scandals surrounding her but by her importance to the history of religion. Like her later books about royal personages, this one celebrates the... |
| Residence | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
had persuaded her mother to settle the pair of them in London. This is the date given by Lucy Aikin
in her obituary of Benger, though elsewhere she places the move a year... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Cobbold | This collection features poetry by women such as Anna Maria Porter
, Amelia Opie
, Lucy Aikin
, Elizabeth Carter
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Anne Hunter
, Mary RobinsonCharlotte Smith
, and EC
herself. |
| Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
draws on Hannah More
, her niece Lucy Aikin
, and (anonymously) Joanna Baillie
. She is even-handed in that she includes six excerpts from James Fordyce
's Sermons to Young Women, a... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Trimmer | In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as... |
| Textual Features | Mary Berry | MB
presents the fruits of wide reading in such sources as printed memoirs and letters and even archival collections. Her cultural history was not unique: Lucy Aikin
had set out in 1818 to use a... |
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