Surname: Barbauld (née Aikin) Forename(s): Anna Letitia b. 20 June 1743. d. 9 March 1825. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Major poet, literary critic, editor, essayist, and children’s writer. Née Aikin. Sister
of poet John Aikin. Married Reverend Rochemont Barbauld in 1774, and with her husband
ran the Palgrave School for boys until 1785. Publications include Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812) and The Female Speaker (1811). Friends with Joanna Baillie and mentor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Biographical
information: ODNB. (CC)