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MacCocktail: "The dead of midnight is the noon of thought."
― Anna Laetitia Barbauld (died this day, March 9, 1825)
NathanFrancis__: “The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.”
Poems:
PublicDomainRev: English poet and essayist Anna Laetitia Barbauld's A New Map of the Land of Matrimony, Drawn From the Latest Surveys (1772).
More allegorical maps dedicated to charting the highs and lows of love, courtship, and marriage here:
Kali_de_Armas: "The Mouse's Petition," by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, a poem from the perspective of a lab rat
oldweirdbritain: Let us turn away for a moment from man's feebleness and folly to contemplate the firstling of the year from the bosom of our common mother, Earth:
THE SNOWDROP
"Flora's breath, by some transforming power,
Hath changed an icicle into a flower."
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
LucyGwynn: Approaching the anniversary of my firstborn’s birth, and I’ve come back to Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s To a little invisible being, which I read as I waited for her.
yumayah: continuing my horrified playthrough of house in fata morgana
yumayah: Not a fan of anna Laetitia barbauld for predictions regarding the year eighteen hundred and eleven I assume.
infinita_fiori: bravely, though vainly, dares to strive with fate,
and seeks by turns to prop each sinking state.
anna laetitia barbauld
CaballeroAnaMa: came across this in my reading today, written by Anna Laetitia Barbauld in 1795
and, yes, it’s inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women from 1792
laphamsquart: Born on this day in 1743: Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
arqios: 1743
On the 20th of June 1743 Anna Laetitia Barbauld is born [Kibworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom]
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer/poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld (June 20,1743), author of "An Essay on the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing"(1810) et al.
socialsciencec2: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
a poet and children’s author
BrinkerhoffPoem: Sweet daughter of a rough and stormy sire,
Hoar Winter's blooming child; delightful Spring!
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
hackneytours: This will be a fantastic day (30th), celebrating Mary Wollstonecraft and Dissent. Only this weekend I was sharing the literary exploits of her, Anna-Laetitia Barbauld and Mary Hays etc. We stand on the shoulders of giants in Hackney, even as history repeats itself.
MacCocktail: "The dead of midnight is the noon of thought."
― Anna Laetitia Barbauld (died this day, March 9, 1825)
PublicDomainRev: English poet and essayist Anna Laetitia Barbauld's A New Map of the Land of Matrimony, Drawn From the Latest Surveys (1772).
More allegorical maps dedicated to charting the highs and lows of love, courtship, and marriage here:
textsish: "The Muses are turned gossips; they have lost
The buskined step, and clear high-sounding phrase,
Language of gods."
- Washing Day, Anna Lætitia Barbauld
JSRichman: "This dead of midnight is the noon of thought."
Anna Laetitia Barbauld still slaps.
OhioStateMedArt: Ohio poet Jeremy Glazier is our featured Hospital Poet for January. Listen to him read two works, including a short poem of his own and an except from a piece by 18th-century English poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Enjoy!
highamnews: And memorial tablets to three other less well-known luminaries, all towering figures in their day: Rev Richard Price, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Samuel Rogers. In the 18th and early 19thC this was an intellectual hothouse.. 3/3
Uwoushnjwuyvn: Life's "Good-Morning", Anna Laetitia Barbauld
ScribnerUMCP: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, "Hymns in Prose for Children" (1865)
historicwomens: Anna Laetitia Barbauld was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature. A "woman of letters" who published in multiple genres, she had a successful writing career that spanned more than half a century.
A thread ✨
HistoryOfStokey: Then & Now: Barbauld Road. Named after Stoke Newington resident Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825); prominent poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature. She lived at 113 Stoke Newington Church Street and is buried in St Mary’s churchyard.
lancaster_words: Wednesday starts with Tomorrow by Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
SilviaMaymo: "Yes, injured Woman! Rise, assert thy right!
Woman! Too long degraded, scorned, oppressed;"
Inici del poema d'Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The Rights of Woman (1792).
dharamvirtanwa4: The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame, and indignation, the glow of moral approbation,– if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they recur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Hsquared_Studio: "Yes, injured Woman! rise, assert thy right!
Woman! too long degraded, scorned, opprest;
O born to rule in partial Law's despite,
Resume thy native empire o'er the breast!...
The Rights of Women by ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD, (1743 - 1825)
Page_Upon_Page: The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (Volume 1) (Published: 1825)
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Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer/poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld (June 20,1743), author of "An Essay on the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing"(1810) et al.
laphamsquart: Born on this day in 1743:
Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
PreCursorPoets: For the more Romantically inclined among you, you might also consider Anna Lætitia Barbauld's "Washing Day" as an entry point here.
"Earth, air, and sky, and ocean hath its bubbles,
And verse is one of them — this most of all."
DrFelicityJames: A Summer Evening’s meditation! The house where Anna Laetitia Barbauld spent her childhood in that hotbed of Dissent, Kibworth Harcourt. Plus two young fans (honest...)
HistoryOfStokey: Ornate iron pot guards in Nevill Rd (Bay window) and Barbauld Rd. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825); prominent poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature, lived at 113 Stoke Newington Church Street. She is buried in St Mary’s old churchyard.
P_R_Stephens: And think thy thoughts, and with thy fancy glow;
Thy Lockes, thy Paleys shall instruct their youth,
Thy leading star direct their search for truth;
Beneath the spreading Platan’s tent-like shade...
From 'Eighteen Hundred and Eleven' (1812) by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
NGMeetingHouse: Barbauld was one of the Meeting House's most famous women congregants, and she was an accomplished poet, children's author and "woman of letters".
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NGMeetingHouse: "OH! hear a pensive captive's prayer,
For liberty that sighs;
And never let thine heart be shut
Against the prisoner's cries."
It's fitting that in the same week as International Women's Day we are marking the anniversary of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, who died on 9th March 1825.
xJesterrr: Can anyone help me with a romantic era essay? It is about Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Anna Laetitia Barbauld - Washing Day
JasonJohnMorga1: 3 of 5 stars to Eighteen Hundred and Eleven by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
rydanmardsey: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
1743 - 1825
HistoryOfStokey: Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825); prominent poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature, lived at 113 Stoke Newington Church Street. She is buried in St Mary’s old churchyard next to the railings close to Church St and the park.
and_absurd: In 1773, Anna Laetitia Barbauld wrote a poem to save the life of a mouse.
BrinkerhoffPoem: Today, we announce our latest text archive update! Enjoy a gathering of twenty Romantic poems, from favorites like William Blake and Percy Shelley to lesser-read greats like Dorothy Wordsworth and Anna Lætitia Barbauld. Explore them now!
P_R_Stephens: Bounteous in vain, with frantic man at strife,
Glad nature pours the means – the joys of life;
In vain with orange-blossoms scents the gale,
The hills with olives clothes, with corn the vale...
From ‘Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem’ (1812) by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Pad_Ban: Say not 'Goodnight' but in some brighter clime bid me 'Good morning'. Anna Laetitia Barbauld. I miss Dubh Linn now that it is gone.
2KMockingbird: Idea for Buzzfeed quiz: Which Bluestocking Are You?
I like to think of myself as an Anna Laetitia Barbauld but am probably more of an Elizabeth Montagu if I'm being honest.
juanitomunoz: 'The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.'
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer/poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld (June 20,1743), author of "An Essay on the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing"(1810) et al.
londonmikmaq: Currently paying a visit to poet and abolitionist Anna Laetitia Barbauld, born on this day in 1743.
HistoryOfStokey: Anna Laetitia Barbauld lived at 113 Stoke Newington Church Street and is buried in old St Mary’s churchyard (on the left behind the main noticeboard)
Writers_Write: 'The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.' ~Anna Laetitia Barbauld
NGMeetingHouse: 'To the Poor' is a powerful and moving ode to the people that suffer poverty and those in power who choose not to help, 'Bend thy meek neck beneath the foot of Power' more here:
hackneytours: I like to imagine the ghosts of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, watching from a distance with Anna-Laetitia Barbauld and quietly dreaming of a better, fairer world...
HistoryOfStokey: Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825); prominent poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature, lived at 113 Stoke Newington Church Street. She is buried in St Mary’s old churchyard next to Clissold Park.
monkchips: TIL about Anna Laetitia Barbauld, poet and abolitionist. reading her Epistle to William Wilberforce on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade (1791)
HistoryOfStokey: Anna Laetitia Barbauld lived in 113 Stoke Newington Church Street and is buried in old St Mary’s churchyard. Her grave is on the left as you enter from Church Street.
seanehewitt: Put up Joseph Priestly, or Anna Laetitia Barbauld, or Jeannie Mole. Would have been good to know, growing up there, that it was a place where poets, scientists, dissenters, radicals came from. Not murdering imperialists.
OUPAcademic: This months 'Taste of OSEO' delves into"women of letters" Anna Laetitia Barbauld and her poetry. Discover more here:
puritanjenny: Women & Education, Part 4: Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s Legacy for Young Ladies (1826) and Lucy Aikin’s English Lesson Book (1828) // Two of our latest acquisitions have an interesting family connection: Aikin—Barbauld’s niece—brought together Legacy for You…
jessica32678922: Life I know not what thou art,
But know that thou and I must part;
And when, or how, or where we met,
I own to me’s a secret yet.
But this I know, when thou art fled,
Where’er they lay these limbs, this head,
No clod so valueless shall be
ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD
londonmikmaq: The Old Church in Stoke Newington, London’s only remaining Elizabethan church. Anna Laetitia Barbauld is buried here.
JordanTanga: Anna Laetitia Barbauld's Poetry
MacCocktail: "The dead of midnight is the noon of thought."
― Anna Laetitia Barbauld (died this day, March 9, 1825)
JaneSpeare: Labour Party International Women’s Day walk. Discovered that Anna Laetitia Barbauld lived in Hackney and there’s a road named after her
BoFVGOAT: I love Anna Laetitia Barbauld, y'all.
jessica32678922: Life! I know not what thou art,
But know that thou and I must part
And when, or how, or where we met
I own to me’s a secret yet
But this I know, when thou art fled
Where’er they lay these limbs, this head
No clod so valueless shall be
ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD
Wordsworthians: Once one of the most famous literary figures in England, now almost forgotten.
jessica32678922: Life! I know not what thou art,
But know that thou and I must part;
And when, or how, or where we met,
I own to me’s a secret yet.
But this I know, when thou art fled,
Where’er they lay these limbs, this head,
-ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD
jessica32678922: No clod so valueless shall be,
As all that then remains of me.
O whither, whither dost thou fly,
Where bend unseen thy trackless course,
And in this strange divorce,
Ah tell where I must seek this compound I?
---------ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD
sgtrius_nfrious: Some reading today on one of the many remarkable women active in the Romantic periods of arts and literature, Anna Laetitia Barbauld
garethhevans1: Already now the snowdrop dares appear
The first pale blossom of the th'unripen'd year;
As Flora's breath by some transforming power
Had chang'd an icicle into a flower,
Its name & hue the scentless plant retains
& winter lingers in its icy veins.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld b. 1743
garethhevans1: Already now the snowdrop dares appear
The first pale blossom of the th'unripen'd year;
As Flora's breath by some transforming power
Had chang'd an icicle into a flower,
Its name & hue the scentless plant retains,
& winter lingers in its icy veins.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld b. 1766
AdamLondonTours: Nobody got this one! Find out more about her life & work here:
HistoryOfStokey: Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825); prominent poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature lived at 113 Stoke Newington Church Street. She is buried in St Mary’s graveyard. Barbauld Rd (formerly Broughton Rd) is named after her.
wenyizhou2: Discuss "The Caterpillar" by Anna Laetitia Barbauld in terms of a feminist viewpoint. | eNotes
HistoryOfStokey: Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s grave in St Mary’s Church graveyard. A prominent poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature. She lived at 113 Stoke Newington Church Street. Barbauld Rd (formerly Broughton Rd) links Albion Rd and Nevill Rd.
Wordsworthians: "Poet, essayist, abolitionist, literary critic, teacher, educationist"
shufflewiki: Featured Article:
Literature and theatre biographies: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
BlissBennet: Happy Birthday to Anna Laetitia Aiken Barbauld, a key innovator in early British children's literature!
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer/poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld (June 20,1743), author of "An Essay on the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing"(1810) et al.
LitBirthdays: Happy Birthday Anna Laetitia Barbauld! Born June 20 1743; British poet.
byNatDavidson: Snowdrop 'Galanthus nivalis'. Pretty little find in the woodland.
"Already now the snowdrop dares appear,
The first pale blossom of th'unripen'd year."
~ Anna Laetitia Barbauld
timesflow: These lines from Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812) seem no less apt in 2018.
S_Insley_H: Hello, I love Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
HistoryOfStokey: The grave of Stoke Newington resident Anna Laetitia Barbauld; prominent English poet, old St. Mary's graveyard
tithenai: Ho hum I'll just drown myself in 19C texts to tune out the awfulness how about some Anna Laetitia Barbauld she's always good for a laugh--
PoetryFound: Go, bid proud Man his boasted rule resign,
And kiss the golden sceptre of thy reign.
—Read the rest of Anna Lætitia Barbauld's "The Rights of Women" on our website:
hackneytours: There's an incredible story here in Hackney of people looking at a messed up world and wanting to change it. Like Mary Wollstonecraft and women's (lack of) rights, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and war, slavery & religious intolerance. We stand on the shoulders of giants...
RomanticismEHU: 1801: Publication of Lucy Aikin’s Poetry for Children Consisting of Short Pieces to be Committed to Memory, including selections from her aunt Anna Laetitia Barbauld (among others).
Barbauld’s ‘Insects’ is a great observational poem, concluding thus:
