Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
In summer 1789 she wrote a poem of complex feeling, An Epistle to Dr Enfield, which she said he was to throw into the Mersey on a farewell visit to Warrington. It too...
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Catherine Fanshawe
The letters that CF
sent to Anne Grant
are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their...
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Elizabeth Hamilton
This was published at Bath and London. EH
did serious historical research for this book, reading all the Roman history she could find in English and even commissioning translations.
There was already women's work...
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Elizabeth Heyrick
She printed this for the Author,
Heyrick, Elizabeth. Familiar Letters Addressed to Children and Young Persons of the Middle Ranks. Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1811.
title-page
which means she took the risk and would keep the profit after paying her publisher, Darton, Harvey and Darton
. (A Leicester bookseller was also listed on...
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB
's niece Lucy Aikin
posthumously published her aunt's Works, with a memoir.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlvi
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
Lucy Aikin
edited and posthumously issued a volume of ALB
's poems and mostly unpublished prose pieces (some epistolary) as A Legacy for Young Ladies. The whole has been called a conduct book.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlvi
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Lucy Aikin
said that at the time of her death EOB
was planning to write a comparable volume of memoirs of the time of Henri IV of France
(the former champion of Protestants who converted...
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Harriet Martineau
Her older friend Lucy Aikin
considered the scheme presumptuous and composed a letter to HM
advising her to abandon it for humbler tasks more appropriate to her age and gender, but she held off sending...
Wealth and Poverty
Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Lucy Aikin
gave it as her opinion in print that EOB
's precarious financial situation made it fortunate for her that she had not lived longer: old age would have found her unprovided.
The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 33 vols.
