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“... in England, admired by Johnson, envied by Goldsmith, praised by Wordsworth, and read by everyone, Anna LetitiaBarbauld has this last century or two thoroughly sunk into oblivion. Until recently, all that was remembered about her was an anecdote in Coleridge’s Table Talk, in which she figured, ingloriously, as the ...”

“... Until 15 or 20 years ago most students of English literature would have known one thing about Anna LetitiaBarbauld, which was her appearance in a droll anecdote told by Samuel Taylor Coleridge towards the end of his life and recorded in the posthumous volume of his Table Talk ...”

“... She​ started off with A and ended up at B: born in 1743 as Miss Aikin, Anna Letitia died in 1825 as Mrs Barbauld. Poet, editor, biographer, essayist, pamphleteer and children’s writer, she was once known only for finding ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ improbable ...”

“... with hostile family members; Richardson takes the place of Clarissa’s intimate confidante, Anna Howe; and ‘write I must, or die’ is the novel’s tragic possibility scrawled casually as sentimental hyperbole.In other letters, she drew more explicit – and clumsier – parallels. Her husband’s emotional turmoil as he struggled through the ...”