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

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.

Barbauld's career as a poet ended abruptly in 1812 with the publication of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, which criticized Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Carnegie continued his business career ; some of his literary intentions were fulfilled.

For Oscar Wilde the contemplation of beauty for beauty's sake was not only the foundation for much of his literary career but was quoted as saying " Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful.

Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon.

Arnaldo Momigliano states that during the reign of Tiberius — which covers the peak of Claudius ' literary career — it became impolitic to speak of republican Rome.

Beaux's friendship with Richard Gilder, editor-in-chief of the literary magazine The Century, helped promote her career and he introduced her to the elite of society.

After completing this particular poem, it seems that de Pizan, at the age 65, decided to end her literary career.

Bulwer-Lytton's literary career began in 1820-with the publication of a book of poems-and spanned much of the nineteenth century.

His father had planned a traditional career for Galen in philosophy or politics and took care to expose him to literary and philosophical influences.

This book gave promise of a successful literary career, but the author died at the age of thirty-three.

Goebbels was embittered by the frustration of his literary career ; his novel did not find a publisher until 1929 and his plays were never staged.

Nevertheless, Macdonald later regretted leaving school when he did, remarking to his private secretary Joseph Pope that if he had attended university, he might have embarked on a literary career.

To these last 34 years of his career belong the most important of his works ; his version of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew text, the best of his scriptural commentaries, his catalogue of Christian authors, and the dialogue against the Pelagians, the literary perfection of which even an opponent recognized.

Collier's later career as a literary forger has cast some doubt on the authenticity of the script, which is rather literary in style and may well have been tidied up from the rough-and-tumble street-theatre original.

When he rewrote Radio Free Albemuth as VALIS beforehand, Dick incorporated the plotline of Radio Free Albemuth as a backdrop film ( also titled VALIS ) that recapitulated the central theological and existential concerns of his novel as a mise en abyme-that is, a miniature copy of his central preoccupations at this stage of his literary career, common to both works.

In June 1960, Wright recorded a series of discussions for French radio dealing primarily with his books and literary career.

With these works Manzoni ’ s literary career was practically closed.

Unlike Balzac who in the midst of his literary career resynthesized his work into La Comédie Humaine, Zola from the start at the age of 28 had thought of the complete layout of the series.

It reviews his own literary career and includes the famous portraits of Lord Hervey (" Sporus ") and Addison (" Atticus ").

Pym's literary career is noteworthy for the long hiatus between 1963 and 1977 when, despite early success and continuing popularity, she was unable to find a publisher for her richly comic novels.

On the same English Literature course was Robert Graves, and the two were close friends during their time at Oxford together, but Blunden found university life unsatisfactory and left in 1920 to take up a literary career, at first acting as assistant to Middleton Murry on the Athenaeum magazine.

Although his primary occupation was as a family doctor, Williams had a successful literary career as a poet.

Inspired when the progressive ideas which D. I. Pisarev, the most eminent of the Russian literary critics of the 1860s and I. M. Sechenov, the father of Russian physiology, were spreading, Pavlov abandoned his religious career and decided to devote his life to science.

The memoir became cause for controversy, because shortly before Derrida published his piece, it had been discovered by the Belgian literary critic Ortwin de Graef that long before his academic career in the US, de Man had written almost two hundred essays in a pro-Nazi newspaper during the German occupation of Belgium, including several that were explicitly antisemitic.

His work spanned numerous literary movements.

Individual egos aside, the end result was a composition that not only spanned centuries of Japanese literary tradition and evolving literary styles but also provided a veritable textbook on what well and poorly written poems looked like.

Curtis introduced Ludlow to the princes of the Harper publishing family as an upcoming literary talent who, before his twenty-fifth birthday, would have his first book go through several printings and would place more than ten stories in Harper ’ s publications, some of which were printed serially and spanned several issues.

And thus, began the first of many sensational tales that may make for " good reading " but which absolutely are not true, that Essad Bey would write during his literary career which spanned slightly more than a decade from about 1926 to 1937.