Anna Laetitia Barbauld was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature. A prominent member of the Blue Stockings Society and a "woman of letters" who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career that spanned more than half a century.
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Barbauld and her brother, John Aikin (shown here in later years), became literary partners.![Joseph Priestley (c. 1763): "Mrs. Barbauld has told me that it was the perusal of some verses of mine that first induced her to write any thing in verse."[13]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/PriestleyLeeds.jpg)
Joseph Priestley (c. 1763): "Mrs. Barbauld has told me that it was the perusal of some verses of mine that first induced her to write any thing in verse."[13]
Design for the medallion of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (formed 1787), struck by Josiah Wedgwood
Original title page from Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
Engraving, published in 1785
"The Mouse's Petition" from Barbauld's Poems (1773)
Poems (1777)In their orbit 1
Writers from France 6
About this person
Country
FranceCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1743 to 1825 · aged 81
Written about in
25 languages
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