Born 1743 Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire

Her father, John Aikin, was a Presbyterian minister and schoolteacher.

Anna received a conventional domestic education from her mother.

In 1761, Joseph Priestley moved to Warrington to teach and Anna became a close friend of Priestley and his wife.

Reading Priestley's verse is believed to have inspired her to write her own.

Anna's younger brother encouraged her to write and publish.

Her first published pieces were six poems in his book Essays on Song-Writing, 1771.

In 1772, William Enfield included five of her hymns in his collection Hymns for Public Worship.

In 1773, Miss Aikin published a major collection of her own Poems.

In 1774 Anna married Rochemont Barbauld.

They had no children of their own and in 1777 adopted her brother's third son.

The last of Mrs. Barbauld's writings to be independently published was Eighteen Hundred And Eleven, A Poem.

After her death in 1825, her niece, Lucy Aikin, published two collections of her works, "The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld, with a Memoir by Lucy Aikin (1825)" and "A Legacy for Young Ladies (1826)".

Died 1825 Stoke Newington, London.



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