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Description: Anna Letitia Barbauld, née Aikin, was an English author, editor, and literary critic. The collection consists primarily of correspondence dating between 1782 and 1822. It also includes one poem and one essay.
Names: Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825 (Creator); Aikin, Charles Rochemont, 1775-1847 (Associated name); Aikin, John, 1747-1822 (Associated name); Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825 (Author); Barbauld, Rochemont (Associated name); Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840 (Associated name); Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849 (Associated name); Enfield, William, 1741-1797 (Associated name); Gilbert, Davies, 1767-1839 (Addressee); Jenyns, Soame, 1704-1787 (Associated name); Longman, Thomas Norton, 1771-1842 (Addressee); Manning, William (Addressee); Martineau, Elizabeth (Addressee); More, Hannah, 1745-1833 (Addressee); Opie, Amelia, 1769-1853 (Associated name); Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767-1840 (Addressee); Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 (Associated name); Rickards, Edith Cordelia (Addressee); Rickards, Lydia, 1749 or 1750-1810 (Addressee); Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 (Associated name); Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806 (Associated name); Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 (Associated name); Withering, Lydia, 1784-1867 (Addressee)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1782 - 1822
Library locations: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle; Shelf locator: Pforz MS
Genres: Correspondence; Poetry; Essays; notes (documents)
Notes: Biographical/historical: Anna Letitia Barbauld's successful literary career spanned more than half a century. She was known as the author of such works as Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: A Poem (1812) and the editor of the 50-volume series The British Novelists (1810), which included her critical prefaces and an influential essay on the history and development of the English novel. Barbauld was also a prominent member of the Blue Stockings Society, a women's social and educational movement in eighteenth-century England.; Content: The Anna Letitia Barbauld manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include a four-line fragment of a poetical epistle to the Rev. William Enfield ("Go see the turf where Worth, where Virtue lies") and an early copy in an unidentifed hand of her memoir of her husband, the Rev. Rochemont Barbauld, which was published in The Monthly Repository for December 1808. The more than 50 pieces of correspondence date between 1782 and 1822 and deal mostly with her writings and her criticisms of the writings of others. A long series of social and instructional letters from Barbauld to Lydia Rickards document her views on education, history, and grammar. Correspondents include Davies Giddy (later Gilbert), engineer, author, and politician; Hannah More, writer and philanthropist; Thomas Norton Longman, publisher; Richard Phillips, publisher; and Lydia Withering (née Rickards), her pupil and friend.; Citation/reference: Items listed in Series I. Writings and Series II. Correspondence which have been published in The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld (4 volumes; Oxford University Press, 2019-2026) are listed with reference. 38 letters written or relating to Lydia Rickards have been published in the online edition Anna Letitia Barbauld Letters to Lydia Rickards, 1798–1815, edited by William McCarthy on Romantic Circles. https://romantic-circles.org/Editions/Publication/anna-letitia-barbauld-letters-lydia-rickards-1798-1815?page=1
Physical Description: Extent: 52 items
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16463328; MSS Unit ID: 19390; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a91c9440-f947-013e-a809-0242ac110002

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