Barbauld's literary career spanned numerous periods in British literary history: her work promoted the values of both the Enlightenment and Sensibility, and her poetry was foundational to the development of British Romanticism.

Barbauld's most significant political texts are: An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts ( 1790 ), Epistle to William Wilberforce on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade ( 1791 ), Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation ( 1793 ), and Eighteen Hundred and Eleven ( 1812 ).

After Barbauld's death, a marble tablet was erected in the Newington Green Chapel with the following inscription:

Her mother attempted to quash these, which would have been viewed as unseemly in a woman ; according to Lucy Aikin's memoir, what resulted was " a double portion of bashfulness and maidenly reserve " in Barbauld's character.

Barbauld's poetry, which addresses a wide range of topics, has been read primarily by feminist literary critics interested in recovering women writers who were important in their own time but who have been forgotten by literary history.

Much of what is known about Barbauld's life comes from two memoirs, the first published in 1825 and written by her niece Lucy Aikin, the second published in 1874 and written by her great-niece Anna Letitia Le Breton.

Barbauld's father was headmaster of the Dissenting academy in Kibworth Harcourt and minister at a nearby Presbyterian church.

At his death in 1780, Barbauld's father's estate was valued at more than £ 2, 500.

Barbauld's penchant for study worried her mother, who expected her to end up a spinster because of her intellectualism ; the two were never as close as Barbauld and her father.

Yet Barbauld's mother was proud of her accomplishments and in later years wrote of her daughter: " I once indeed knew a little girl who was as eager to learn as her instructors could be to teach her, and who at two years old could read sentences and little stories in her wise book, roundly, without spelling ; and in half a year more could read as well as most women ; but I never knew such another, and I believe never shall.

Barbauld's father prompted many such tributes, although Lucy Aikin described him as excessively modest and reserved.

In 1758, the family moved to Warrington Academy, in Warrington, where Barbauld's father had been offered a teaching position.

" Such scenes repeated themselves to Barbauld's great sadness and real danger, but she refused to leave him.

Barbauld's remarkable disappearance from the literary landscape took place for a number of reasons.

Barbauld's works fell out of print and no full-length scholarly biography of her was written until William McCarthy's Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment in 2009.

In her subsequent analysis of " Inscription for an Ice-House " she points to Barbauld's challenge of Edmund Burke's characterization of the sublime and the beautiful and Adam Smith's economic theories in the Wealth of Nations as evidence for this interpretation.

As Harriet Guest explains, " the theme Barbauld's essays of the 1790s repeatedly return to is that of the constitution of the public as a religious, civic, and national body, and she is always concerned to emphasize the continuity between the rights of private individuals and those of the public defined in capaciously inclusive terms.

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