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Anna Laetitia Barbauld
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English author (1743–1825)
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld was a British and French poet, children's writer, literary critic, and essayist. Born in Kibworth Harcourt in 1743, she wrote in English and was a Protestant. Her professional fields included poetry, essays, literary criticism, and children's literature. She is the author of works such as *Hymns in prose for children*, *Poems*, *Leçons pour les enfans*, *Leçons pour les enfans de trois à huit ans*, and *Gl' inni Giovanili*.
Barbauld died in Stoke Newington, London, in 1825 and was buried in London. She had siblings, including John Aikin, and was related to Lucy Aikin. Her writings have been described by sources including the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*, *The Nuttall Encyclopædia*, and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition. Her archives are held at the New York Public Library Main Branch.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1743
- Died
- 1825
- Works
- 166
Top works
- Hymns in prose por[!] children
- Poems
- Leçons pour les enfans
- Leçons pour les enfans de trois à huit ans
- Gl' inni Giovanili
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
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- Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.
· 1988 · cited 29,282x
- Antioxidant activity applying an improved ABTS radical cation decolorization assay
· 1999 · cited 21,343x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 15,219x
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Quotes
- “Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?”
- “Man is the nobler growth our realms supply,And souls are ripen'd in our northern sky.”
- “O gently guide my pilgrim feetTo find thy hermit cell;Where in some pure and equal skyBeneath thy soft indulgent eyeThe modest virtues dwell.”
- “It is to hope, tho' hope were lost.”
- “Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew,In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew.[…]Gay without toil, and lovely without art,They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the heart.”
- “I read his awful name, emblazon'd highWith golden letters on th' illumin'd sky.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Anna Laetitia Aikin , 20 June 1743, Kibworth-Harcourt, Leicestershire , England
- Died
- 9 March 1825 (1825-03-09) (aged 81), Stoke Newington , England
- Occupation
- Writer poet
- Subject
- Reform education Christianity history
- Spouse
- Rochemont Barbauld ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1774 ; died 1808 )
- Relatives
- Lucy Aikin (niece) , Anna Letitia Le Breton (great niece)
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Anna Laetitia Barbauld, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (/bɑːrˈboʊld/, by herself possibly /bɑːrˈboʊ/, as in French, née Aikin; 20 June 1743 – 9 March 1825) 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.
She was a noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy and an innovative writer of works for children. Her primers provided a model for more than a century. Her essays showed it was possible for a woman to be engaged in the public sphere; other women authors such as Elizabeth Benger emulated her. Barbauld's literary career spanned numerous periods in British literary history: her work promoted the values of the enlightenment and of sensibility, while her poetry made a founding contribution to the development of British Romanticism. Barbauld was also a literary critic. Her anthology of 18th-century novels helped to establish the canon as it is known today.
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