About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Dissenting academy tutors, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Richard Frankland, Homerton College, Cambridge, John Taylor, Tewkesbury Academy, Philip Doddridge, Samuel Jones, Theophilus Gale, George Walker, Thomas Jollie, James Burgh, Rathmell Academy, Charles Morton, Thomas Doolittle, Henry Grove, Abraham Rees, Eliezer Cogan, John Pye-Smith, Timothy Jollie, New College at Hackney, Thomas Belsham, David Jennings, Warrington Academy, John Seddon of Warrington, Benjamin Robinson, Stephen Addington, Thomas Amory, Gilbert Wakefield, John Chorlton, Palgrave Academy, William Enfield, Samuel Morton Savage, John Jennings, Daventry Academy, Andrew Kippis, Ralph Button, John Aikin, John Alexander, Henry Langley, Caleb Ashworth, Highbury College, John Kenrick, Thomas Rowe, James Coningham, John Eames, John Conder, Matthew Warren, Congregational Board of Education, Attercliffe Academy. Excerpt: Anna Laetitia Barbauld (, by herself possibly, as in French, nee Aikin; 20 June 1743 - 9 March 1825) was a prominent English Romantic poet, essayist, and children's author. A "woman of letters" who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career at a time when female professional writers were rare. She was a noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy and an innovative children's writer; her primers provided a model for pedagogy for more than a century. Her essays demonstrated that it was possible for a woman to be publicly engaged in politics, and other women authors emulated her. Even more important, her poetry was foundational to the development of Romanticism in England. Barbauld was also a literary critic, and her anthology of 18th-century British novels helped establish the canon as known today. Barbauld's literary career ended abruptly in 1812 with the publication of her poem Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, which criticized B...
