Lucy Aikin was an English writer and biographer. She is best known for her historical works Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth (1818) and Memoirs of the Court of James I (1822), which have been reprinted and translated into French and German throughout the 19th century.
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Lucy Aikin was an English writer and biographer. She is best known for her historical works Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth (1818) and Memoirs of the Court of James I (1822), which have been reprinted and translated into French and German throughout the 19th century. She also published under pseudonyms such as Mary Godolphin. Her literary-minded family included her aunt Anna Laetitia Barbauld, a writer of poetry, essays and children's books as well as Anna Letitia Le Breton, a writer who wrote memoirs of the Aikin literary family.
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