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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Anna Letitia Barbauld"”.
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Sin, History, and Liberty: Milton, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Anne Grant in the Eighteen Hundreds
My study examines the relationship between Anna Letitia Barbauld's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem and Anne Grant's Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen, A Poem as well as Milton's presence in both texts. I argue that Grant does not merely offer a conservative counter to Barbauld's liberal …
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Re-working Novelistic Sentiment: Barbauld, Smith, Edgeworth, and the Politics of Children's Fiction
Despite the recognized importance of Anna Letitia Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, and Charlotte Smith as commentators on 1790s radicalism, pedagogy, and novel conventions, their writings for children and for adults tend to be studied separately. Indeed, despite each writer's familiarity with the others' …
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Writing Resistance: The Politics and Poetics of British Women's Antislavery Verse, 1785--1865
… One, I compare the sentimental responses of Hannah More and Ann C. Yearsley to the Dolben Bill (1788). Their disparate compositions revealed volumes about their contentious relationship and the class tensions in the late eighteenth century. In my second chapter, with the backdrop of …
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<em>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:</em> A Reflection of the Tension Between Conformity and Rebellion in the Life and Times of Mary Wollstonecraft
… other female figures of her time-specifically Anna Letitia Barbauld. Although Barbauld differed from Wollstonecraft in her ideas relating to women and their role in society as well as their rights to formal education, she was in fact inspired by the fervor with which Mary Wollstonecraft fought …
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Lessons After Barbauld: The Conversational Primer in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain
This thesis explores how Anna Letitia Barbauld’s book Lessons for Children Aged Two to Three Years (1778) facilitated the development of the conversational primer. This genre, which has not yet been theorised, may be identified by the way the texts present themselves as verisimilar and replicable …