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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Laetitia Barbauld has received more than 286,233 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Anna Laetitia Barbauld is the 4,895th most popular writer (down from 4,750th in 2019), the 3,572nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,614th in 2019) and the 406th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 4,895 out of 7,302. Before her are Robert Charles Wilson, Dmytro Pavlychko, Alexander Abusch, Fedir Bohatyrchuk, Matthew Henry, and George Moore. After her are Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Henry of Huntingdon, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Kedarnath Singh, and Jonathan Coe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 32. Before her are Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Johannes Ewald, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Johann David Wyss, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, and Marmaduke Tunstall. After her are Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and John Fitch. Among people deceased in 1825, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 37. Before her are Johann Karl Burckhardt, Franciszek Karpiński, Marie Bouliard, Wilhelm Hemprich, Yakov Sannikov, and Paul Louis Courier. After her are Edward Pigott, José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, 4th Marquess of Torre Tagle, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, James Wilkinson, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and William Eustis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 3,572 out of 8,785. Before her are Susan Blackmore (1951), John Castle (1940), Solomon (1902), Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760), Tony Kaye (1945), and Stafford Cripps (1889). After her are Richard Burns (1971), Anthony Head (1954), Henry of Huntingdon (1080), Jonathan Coe (1961), Miriam Rothschild (1908), and Kenney Jones (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 406. Before her are Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), Norman Smith (1923), Mary Stewart (1916), Len Deighton (1929), Alan Woods (1944), and Susan Blackmore (1951). After her are Henry of Huntingdon (1080), Jonathan Coe (1961), Richard Bentley (1662), Sam Houser (1972), Piers Anthony (1934), and Amelia Edwards (1831).

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