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

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters of the Late Lucy Aikin: Including Those Addressed to the Rev. Dr Channing from 1826 to 1842
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Lucy Aikin
Edited by P. H. Le Breton
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:474
Dimensions(mm): Height 215,Width 138
Category/GenreMemoirs
Prose - non-fiction
Literary studies - general
Literary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9781108074704
ClassificationsDewey:828.709
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 17 July 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.