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"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…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2008Johns Hopkins University Press · 725 pages · 9780801890161
English Women authorsEnglish literatureWomen authorsWomen and literatureEnlightenmentBiographyHistoryBarbauld, mrs. (anna letitia), 1743-1825