Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, biographer, editor, reviewer, children’s writer, and physician. Alternative signature: Dr. Aikin. Brother of writer and educationalist Anna Letitia Barbauld. Educated at the Warrington Academy and the University of Edinburgh. Edited The Monthly Magazine (1796-1801), Dodsley’s Annual Register (1811-1815), and The Athenaeum. Member of the radical publisher Joseph Johnson’s circle. Biographical information: ODNB. (AC)