The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Memoir (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Memoir

In the middle of the last century a strong prejudice still existed against imparting to females any tincture of classical learning and the father of Miss Aikin, proud as he justly was of her uncommon capacity, long refused to gratify her earnest desire of being initiated in this kind of knowledge. At length, however, she in some degree overcame his scruples and with his assist ance' she enabled herself to read the Latin authors withpleasure and advantage nor did she rest satisfied without gaining some acquaintance with the Greek.

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Anna Lætitia Barbauld, a name long dear to the admirers of genius and the lovers of virtue, was born at the village of Kibworth Harcourt, in Leicestershire, on June 20th, 1743, the eldest child and only daughter of John Aikin, D.D, and Jane his wife, daughter of the Rev. John Jennings of Kibworth, and descended by her mother from the ancient family of Wingate, of Harlington in Bedfordshire.

That quickness of apprehension by which she was eminently distinguished, manifested itself from her earliest infancy.

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