Joseph Priestley

This work was controversial. William Enfield in the Monthly Review praised it and endorsed its opinions.Mary Wollstonecraft quoted from Barbauld's Thoughts on the Devotional Taste in her own preface to The Female Reader...

MBL feared her brother would dislike this book because of his unworldliness, his unawareness of his own fame, and his remoteness from contemporary reality. With the public, however, it was an immediate success, and sold...

Early, informal response centred on the play's daring political message, which made SHR famous or notorious. People spoke of the play as Americans in Algiers or Slaves Released from Algiers.William Cobbett attacked her...

HM 's biographer R. K. Webb argues that her intellectual and political positions flowed quite logically from her family's business and religious interests: from a kind of radicalism typical of the industrial north. This gave...

She took the trials so seriously that she thought of emigrating with her father (as Joseph Priestley had already done) if they went against the defendants.

Anna Aikin (later ALB ) wrote On Mrs P— 's Leaving Warrington, one of her earliest important surviving poems, which she threw into the carriage that was to carry the Priestleys away to Joseph

BRP 's contributions to other periodicals include her article Everybody's Baby which appeared in Saint Pauls magazine in 1871. In 1894 she published articles on her great-grandfather Joseph Priestley , on George Eliot

A local newspaper, the Norwich Iris, published a letter from ALB in defence of Joseph Priestley .

At some time after her marriage AG left London and settled in the industrial town of Leeds, far from her origins. Among manufacturing towns it had a remarkably lively cultural life. Joseph Priestley had...

Influences on AR 's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley 's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.AR probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...

After this came Cinnamon and Pearls, which treats imperialist exploitation in Ceylon,A Tale of the Tyne on press gangs, and Briery Creek.The hero of the last of these was a...

ALB 's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body. She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...

ALB 's niece wrote of her (with an echo of Pope on himself) that while yet a child, she was surprised to find herself a poet. She herself, however, said it was Joseph Priestley

To the same year, probably, belong An Address to the Deity (a devotional poem written in response to Joseph Priestley 's preaching) and To Mrs. P[riestley], with some Drawings of Birds and Insects.

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...