Aikin, John
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Aikin, John (1747–1822), physician, author, and Dissenter, and brother of Anna Laetitia
Barbauld, with whom he wrote
Evenings at Home (6 vols, 1792–6), for children; he also wrote and collaborated with others in several volumes of memoirs and biography. He was the first editor of the
Monthly Magazine.
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/9/1995; 493 words
; ...Queen of Scots, murdered 1566; Samuel Jebb, physician and scholar, 1772; Ozias Humphry, painter, 1810; Anna Letitia Barbauld (Aikin), poetess, teacher and hymn- writer, 1825; Charles Knight, author and publisher, 1873; Arnold Toynbee...
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UK leaps up world economic rankings
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/5/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...position was little changed at nissenting radical Anna Letitia Barbauld, nee Aikin. These works revealed her deep commitment to her...died one year before her. Susan Lasdun Betsy Aikin-Sneath, historian: born Paignton, Devon 29...
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Anna Letitia (Aikin) Barbauld
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Anna Letitia (Aikin) Barbauld , 1743-1825, English poet and editor. In 1774 she married Rochemont Barbauld and with him opened a boarding school. Her Hymns in Prose for children...
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