See also:ANNA LETITIA See also:BARBAULD (1743-1825)
, See also:English poet and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born at Kibworth-See also:Harcourt, in See also:Leicestershire, on the loth of See also:June 1743
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Her See also:father, the Rev
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See also:John See also:Aikin, a Presbyterian See also:minister and schoolmaster, taught his daughter Latin and See also:Greek
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In 1758 Mr Aikin removed his See also:family to See also:Warrington, to See also:act as theological See also:tutor in a dissenting See also:academy there
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In 1773 See also:Miss Aikin published a See also:volume of Poems, which was very successful, and co-operated with her See also:brother, Dr John Aikin, in a volume of Miscellaneous Pieces in See also:Prose
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In 1774 she married Rochemont See also:Barbauld, a member of a See also:French See also:Protestant family settled in See also:England
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He had been educated in- the academy at Warrington, and was minister of a Presbyterian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at See also:Palgrave, in See also:Suffolk, where, with his wife's help, he established a boarding school
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Her admirable See also:Hymns in Prose and See also:Early Lessons were written for their pupils
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In 1785 she See also:left England for the See also:continent with her See also:husband, whose- See also:health was seriously impaired
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On their return abouttwo years later, Mr Barbauld was appointed to a church at See also:Hampstead
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In 1802 they removed to Stoke Newington
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Mrs Barbauld became well known in See also:London See also:literary circles
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She collaborated with Dr Aikin in his Evenings at See also:Home; in 1795 she published an edition of See also:Akenside's Pleasures of See also:Imagination, with a See also:critical See also:essay; two years later she edited See also:Collins's Odes; in 1804 she published a selection of papers from the English Essayists, and a selection from See also:Samuel See also:Richardson's See also:correspondence, with a See also:biographical See also:notice; in 1810 a collection of the See also:British Novelists (5o vols.) with biographical and critical notices; and in 1811 her longest poem, Eighteen See also:Hundred and Eleven, giving a gloomy view of the existing See also:state and future prospects of See also:Britain
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This poem anticipated See also:Macaulay in contemplating the prospect of a visitor from the See also:antipodes regarding at a future See also:day the ruins of St See also:Paul's from a broken See also:arch of Blackfriars See also:Bridge
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Mrs Barbauld died on the 9th of See also:March 1825; her husband had died in 1808
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A collected edition of her See also:works, with memoir, was published by her niece, See also:Lucy Aikin, in 2 vols., 1825
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Barbauld (1874) ; and See also:Lady See also:Thackeray See also:Ritchie, A See also:Book of Sibyls (1883)
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