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Anna Letitia Barbauld:

Voice of the Enlightenment
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Against the background of the American and French revolutions, the Napoleonic Wars, and the struggle for religious equality in Great Britain, a brilliant, embattled woman strove to defend Enlightenment values to her nation. 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 of five countries, this is the first full-length biography of one of the foremost women writers in Georgian England.

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Preface
March 1790
1. Ties of Kindred
2. Home at Kibworth
3. Soul-Building
4. Warrington
5. Miss Aikin
6. Land of Matrimony
7. Devotion
8. Enlightenment in a Suffolk Village
9. Mother Tongue
10. How They Lived
11. Pursuit of Happiness
12. Revolutions
13. Sins of the Nation
14. ""Our Political Duties""
15. In Middle Age
16. Subjects Light and Grave
17. Racketing
18. The Highest Literary Character in England
19. Wounds
20. ""Night, Gothic Night""
21. Legacy to Young Ladies
22. Good Morning
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Appendixes
A. The Aikin House in Kibworth
B. Rochemont Barbauld's Disorder
C. Iconography
D. Aikin-Barbauld Family Tree
Abbreviations Used in the Notes
Notes
Barbauld-Aikin Sources
General Bibliography
Index

""McCarthy blends Barbauld's private, professional, and authorial lives seamlessly, affording readers a context rare in its comprehensiveness.... He accomplishes all of this with spirit, grace, and eloquence.""

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