Anna Laetitia Barbauld by Amelia Sari Rezeki (194972)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld the female Author from Romantic Literature Period.

           Anna Laetitia Barbauld was a prominent English Romantic poet, essayist, British writer, literary critic, children's author and editor whose best writings are on political and social themes. Anna Laetitia Barbauld original name is Anna Laetitia Aikin was born on 20 June 1743 at Kibworht Harcourt in Leicestershire and death on 9 March 1825. The only daughter of John Aikin and Jane Aikin. Anna Barbauld’s father was headmaster of the Dissenting academy in Kibworth Harcourt and ministerat nearby Presbyterian church. In May 1774, despite some "misgivings", Barbauld married Rochemont Barbauld (1749–1808), the grandson of a French Huguenot and a former pupil at Warrington. Anna Barbauld’s poem appeared in 1772.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld poems:

·        Life

·        The rights of women

·        To a little invisible being who is expected soon to become visible

·        To Mrs.T Coleridge

·        To the poor

·        Washing day

For Barbauld’s poems you can click this link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43615/the-rights-of-women

By: Amelia Sari Rezeki (194972)