Anna Letitia Barbauld : voice of the enlightenment

Anna Letitia Barbauld : voice of the enlightenment /

"Poet, teacher, essayist, political writer, editor, and critic, Anna Letitia Barbauld was venerated by contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic, among them the young Walter Scott, the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Boston Unitarians such as William Ellery Channing. After decades in the...

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Main Author: McCarthy, William, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Barbauld, > Mrs. > (Anna Letitia), > 1743-1825.
Women authors, English > Biography.
Enlightenment > Great Britain.
English literature > Women authors.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History.
Table of Contents:
  • "One of the great minds"
  • March 1790
  • Ties of kindred
  • Home at Kibworth
  • Soul-building
  • Warrington
  • Miss Aikin
  • Land of matrimony
  • Devotion
  • Enlightenment in a Suffolk Village
  • Mother tongue
  • How they lived
  • Pursuit of happiness
  • Revolutions
  • Sins of the nation
  • "Our political duties"
  • In Middle Age
  • Subjects light and grave
  • Racketing
  • The highest literary character in England
  • Wounds
  • "Night, gothic night"
  • Legacy to young ladies
  • Good morning
  • Afterword: Wisdom in time of need.

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