Rochemont 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...

Anna Aikin (later ALB ) met her future husband in Warrington when he was admitted as a student to the Warrington Academy .

Anna Aikin and Rochemont Barbauld were married in the parish church (the Anglican church) of Warrington by Rochemont's father.

During the 1790s Rochemont Barbauld 's behaviour became increasingly restless and what would today be called manic. He developed a habit of compulsive washing and suspected a non-existent conspiracy on the part of someone to...

Since she and her husband were so far childless (as they remained), ALB adopted her brother 's third son, Charles Rochemont Aikin , to bring up as her own.

HM 's father, Thomas Martineau (1764 - 1826), had been educated at Palgrave School by Rochemont and Anna Letitia Barbauld (to whose teaching Harriet ascribed his sound radical and Unitarian principles). He became a manufacturer...

ALB reported that her insane husband 's affection for her was gone, replaced by a violent antipathy. In response to her family's anxiety he went away, to try the experiment of temporary separation.

ALB 's husband drowned himself in the New River on a wild and rainy night. He had made his will ten days before this, leaving everything to her. His body was found next day in...

Over the course of her long life JB made dozens of well-loved friends, many of them either professional writers like herself or else writing amateurs. They included Lucy Aikin , Mary Berry , Eliza Fletcher

The young Samuel Taylor Coleridge walked forty miles in order to meet ALB and her husband . He had already been influenced by her poetry, and she had reviewed his.

For this her great support and encouragement was her brother (as he, rather than her husband , continued to be for her later publications). After he left home to pursue his studies, she sent him...

Rochement was minister to a Dissenting congregation while they ran the school. During the school holidays (the month of June, slightly extended, plus Christmas) he and ALB frequently went to London to see...

After moving to Hampstead with her husband , ALB began taking in private (female) pupils.

ALB and her husband were settled after their marriage at Palgrave in Suffolk, where they were to manage what became the well-known Palgrave School for boys.

ALB and her husband embarked on a series of lodgings in London before settling in Hampstead.