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unusual facts about Anna Laetitia Barbauld



Elizabeth Benger

She later became known to John Aikin and his daughter Lucy, the poet and children's writer Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Sarah Wesley, the writer daughter of the prominent Methodist Charles Wesley, and the novelist and actress Elizabeth Inchbald.

Jane Porter

Some time afterward the family moved to London, where the sisters became acquainted with a number of literary women: Elizabeth Inchbald, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Hannah More, Elizabeth Hamilton, Elizabeth Benger and Mrs Champion de Crespigny.

Revolution Controversy

Anna Laetitia Barbauld, a prolific writer admired by Samuel Johnson and William Wordsworth and wife of the minister at Newington Green, alluded to Burke's work and his opponents in her "Sins of the Government, Sins of the Nation" (1793).

Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel

Ministers who have served the Chapel include Stephen Lobb (1647?-1699), Richard Amner (1736-1803), Rochemont Barbauld, husband of the radical poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825), Jeremiah Joyce (1763-1816) and William Hincks (1794-1871).


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