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Anna Laetitia Barbauld

1743 - 1825

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Anna Laetitia Barbauld (, by herself possibly , as in French, née Aikin; 20 June 1743 – 9 March 1825) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature. A prominent member of the Blue Stockings Society and a "woman of letters" who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career that spanned more than half a century. She was a noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy and an innovative writer of works for children. Her primers provided a model for more than a century. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Laetitia Barbauld is the 2,826th most popular writer (up from 4,895th in 2019), the 2,358th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,573rd in 2019) and the 261st most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 2,826 out of 7,302. Before her are Juan Boscán Almogáver, Justus of Tiberias, Alice Schwarzer, Tullia d'Aragona, Édouard Chavannes, and Wipo of Burgundy. After her are Mihail Sadoveanu, Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus, Ludwig Rellstab, Marthe Bibesco, William L. Shirer, and Xu Zhimo.

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Among people born in 1743, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 27. Before her are Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, William Paley, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, and Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann. After her are Johannes Ewald, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Johann David Wyss, and Marmaduke Tunstall. Among people deceased in 1825, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 22. Before her are Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Mikhail Miloradovich, Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Karl Mollweide. After her are Vladimir Borovikovsky, Jan Václav Voříšek, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Pierre Gaveaux, Peter Winter, and Juan Martín Díez.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 2,358 out of 8,785. Before her are Millicent Fawcett (1847), Ken Tyrrell (1924), Paul W. S. Anderson (1965), Marie Stopes (1880), Tim Rice (1944), and Glen Johnson (1984). After her are Stephen Rea (1946), Francis Rossi (1949), John Evelyn (1620), Reg Park (1928), Brian Bennett (1940), and Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1901).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 261. Before her are Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868), Leonard Woolf (1880), Thomas Otway (1652), Taliesin (518), Robert Kerr (1755), and John Webster (1578). After her are John Evelyn (1620), Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Angela Carter (1940), Michael Bond (1926), and Vera Brittain (1893).

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