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...
Textual Production
Anna Letitia Barbauld
The printer of the volume, William Eyres
, apparently kept the manuscript and proofs of the collection, but they were destroyed by fire.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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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.
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1777: John Howard, with The State of the Prisons...
Building item
1777
John Howard
, with The State of the Prisons in England and Wales (printed by William Eyres
at Warrington and sold by Joseph Johnson
in London) initiated a movement for prison reform.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
