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21 Nov 2009

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)


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Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) was born in Leicestershire, England, to the Reverend John Aikin, Master of Kibworth School. At the age of twenty three she wrote a collection of poems called Corsica, which although not published, were widely circulated in manuscript form. She was also actively encouraged by her younger brother to pursue her writing; and her first published pieces were six poems in his book Essays on Song Writing. In 1774 she married Rochemont Barbauld, and a number of her poems are celebratory affairs of the happy times spent with him. Together they set up a boarding school. Unfortunately, due to mental illness and a breakdown, the couple seperated in 1808, after her once idyllic relationship with her husband had deteriorated to the point where he had attacked her with a knife. Despite the subject of this particular poem, the couple never actually had any children of their own.

 
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