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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 273,056 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Laetitia Barbauld is the 4,766th most popular writer (down from 4,072nd in 2019), the 3,622nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,050th in 2019) and the 412th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 4,766 out of 5,755. Before her are Urs Widmer, Fay Weldon, Álvaro Cunqueiro, Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson, Warren Farrell, and Jeffrey Eugenides. After her are Vladimir Makanin, Duncan Regehr, Granius Licinianus, Anton Buttigieg, Gunnar Heiberg, and James Thomson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 33. Before her are Johannes Ewald, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Johann David Wyss, John Fitch, and Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.  Among people deceased in 1825, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 36. Before her are Juan Martín Díez, Johann Karl Burckhardt, Franciszek Karpiński, Wilhelm Hemprich, Paul Louis Courier, and Yakov Sannikov. After her are Edward Pigott, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and William Eustis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 3,622 out of 7,765. Before her are Fay Weldon (1931), Jamie Campbell Bower (1988), Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845), Callum Keith Rennie (1960), Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757), and John Gerard (1545). After her are Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812), Joe Cole (1981), John O. Westwood (1805), James Thomson (1700), Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591), and Nigella Lawson (1960).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anna Laetitia Barbauld ranks 412. Before her are Ælfric of Eynsham (955), Richard Pococke (1704), Jonathan Coe (1961), Hanif Kureishi (1954), John Gardner (1926), and Fay Weldon (1931). After her are James Thomson (1700), Nigella Lawson (1960), Edward Carpenter (1844), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), Charles Williams (1886), and Henry Lincoln (1930).

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