Anna Letitia Barbauld
Subtitle: voice of the enlightenment
By: William McCarthy.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 725
ISBN-13: 9780801890161
Subjects: Barbauld, -- Mrs. -- 1743-1825; Women authors, English -- Biography; Enlightenment -- Great Britain; English literature -- Women authors; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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 historical limbo into which almost all work by women writers of her era was swept, Barbauld's writings on citizenly ethics, identity politics, church-state relations, and empire are still deeply relevant today. Inquiring and witty as well as principled and passionate, Barbauld was a voice for the Enlightenment in an age of revolution and reaction." "Based on more than fifteen years of research in dozens of libraries and archives across five countries, this is the first full-length biography of one of the foremost women writers in Georgian England."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.