Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters of the Late Lucy Aikin - Including Those Addressed to the Rev. Dr Channing from 1826 to 1842 (Paperback)

The writer Lucy Aikin (1781 1864) was the daughter of the physician and author John Aikin and the niece of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, whose works she edited after Barbauld's death in 1825. Given this literary background, it is not surprising that Lucy should have begun to write: her early works were poems, but she is best known for her two-volume Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth (1818), also reissued in this series. This 1864 work, edited by her niece's husband, contains a memoir of Aikin, a collection of her essays, and letters in which she expresses frequently humorous and often trenchant opinions on the literary and social topics of the day, such as the influence of wider knowledge of the German language on English writing, or the morally elevating effect of the British Museum. It will be appreciated by those interested in early nineteenth-century literature and women's writing."

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
Release date:	July 2014
Authors:	Lucy Aikin
Editors:	P. H. Le Breton
Dimensions:	215 x 138 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	474
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-07470-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-108-07470-7
Barcode:	9781108074704

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