| |
Anna Lætitia Barbauld Website Index
Following is a list of all the pages on this site:
Editorial
Texts by Barbauld
- Digital Editions
- Poems. London, 1773.
Edited by Lisa Vargo and Allison Muri (completed Winter 2000, for Romantic Circles Electronic Editions)
- The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld. With a Memoir by Lucy Aikin Two Volumes. London, 1825. Full-colour facsimile prepared by Lisa Vargo and Allison Muri (completed Fall 2003).
- Annotated Poems
-
- Other Poems and Prose
-
Background
Illustrations
- Balloons (see Barbauld's "Washing-Day")
- Barbauld and her Contemporaries
- Facsimiles
- Washing (see Barbauld's "Washing-Day")
- Writing (see Barbauld's "On a Lady's Writing" in Poems)
- illustration of the correct posture for writing, from a copy book by Marchand, Nouveaux principes d'ecriture italienne avec des exemples suivant l'ordre de Madame de Maintenon pour les demoiselles de la Maison Royale de St Louis établie à St Cyr. Par le maitre à écrire de Madame la Duchesse de Bourgogne. Paris, 1721. (87k)
- "To the Ladies of Great Britain" from A Delightful Recreation for the Industrious by William Brooks, 1717. (107k)
- "Elegance of Taste" from The Beauties of Writing by Thomas Tomkins, 1777. (45k)
- "A Penman's Advice" from The Universal Penman engraved by George Bickham, 1743. (160k)
- "An Extract From a Poem in Praise of Epistolary Writing" from The Universal Penman engraved by George Bickham, 1743. (150k)
- Plate 2 from L'art d'écrire réduis à des demonstrations vraies et faciles avec des explications claires pour le Dictionnaire des Arts par Paillasson Expert Ecrivain in Diderot's Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire des sciences, des arts et des méiers, demonstrating the correct posture for writing, issued ca. 1762-77. (113k)
- Plate 3 from L'art d'écrire réduis in Diderot's Encyclopédie, demonstrating the correct posture for writing. (90k)
- Plate 4 from L'art d'écrire réduis in Diderot's Encyclopédie, demonstrating quill-cutting technique. (51k)
- Plate 9 from L'art d'écrire réduis in Diderot's Encyclopédie, demonstrating roundhand letters. (85k)
Literary Criticism
Related Texts
- Coleridge, S.T. Religious Musings (1834; first published in 1796).
- Collier, Mary. The Woman's Labour (1739) (This text includes the ASCII long-S character. The poem is also available here in standard ASCII text).
- Duncombe. "Observations on Female Literature in General, Including Some Particulars Relating to Mrs. Montagu and Mrs. Barbauld." The Westminster Magazine (June 1776): 283-285. (This text includes the ASCII long-S character. The poem is also available here in standard ASCII text).
- Gregory, Dr. John. A Father's Legacy to His Daughters (1774), a conduct book popular through the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century (This text includes the ASCII long-S character. The book is also available here in standard ASCII text).
- Thackeray (Mrs Richmond Ritchie). A Book of Sibyls, 1883. A brief account of Anna Barbauld. (Courtesy of Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta)
- Wollstonecraft, Mary. Preface to The Female Reader (1739).
- Woodforde, James. Excerpt from Diary of a Country Parson, an account of washing week.
Explanatory Notes
Notes on Barbauld's Works:
General Notes:
Other Resources
|