Anna Barbauld: A Brief Chronology
 | This silhouette of Anna Barbauld appeared in The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, with a Memoir by Lucy Aikin, 1825. |
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| 1743 | Birth on 20
June, Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, first child of Reverend John
Aikin, master of Kibworth School, and Jane Jennings Aikin |
| 1747 | Birth on 15
January of her brother John |
| 1758 | Move to
Warrington in July. John Aikin takes the
position of tutor of languages at the newly opened Dissenting academy,
Warrington, Lancashire. |
| 1761 | John Aikin
becomes tutor in divinity and Joseph
Priestley comes to Warrington in September as tutor of
languages. |
| 1767 | Priestley
moves to Leeds and AB writes "On Mrs.
Priestley's Leaving Warrington." Rochemont Barbauld is admitted to
Warrington Academy. |
| 1769 | AB writes
"Corsica." |
| 1771 | AB's brother
completes medical studies. |
| 1772 | John Aikin's
Essays on Song-Writing (which includes
AB's "Songs"). Hymns I-V appear in William Enfield's Hymns for
Public Worship. AB's Poems published in
December. |
| 1773 | AB and JA
publish Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose in
August. |
| 1774 | Marriage to
Rochemont Barbauld on 26 May. They
undertake the running of Palgrave School in Suffolk. |
| 1775 | Devotional Pieces published. |
| 1777 | Adoption of
JA's third son Charles Rochemont Aikin
(born 1775). |
| 1778 | Lessons
for Children of Two to Three Years
Old (May) and Lessons for Children of Three Years Old
(June). |
| 1779 | Lessons
for Children from Three to Four Years
Old (April). |
| 1780 | AB's father
dies. |
| 1781 | Hymns
in Prose for Children
(August). |
| 1784 | John Aikin
moves to Yarmouth, Norfolk. |
| 1785 | AB's mother
dies. The Barbaulds leave Palgrave School
and tour France. |
| 1786 | The Barbaulds
return to England in June and settle in
London. |
| 1787 | The Barbaulds
settle in Hampstead and Rochemont is
minister to the Rosslyn Hill congregation. AB takes
students. |
| 1790 | An
Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the
Corporation and Test Acts appears in March. |
| 1791 | The
Epistle to William Wilberforce
appears in June. |
| 1792 | Remarks
on Gilbert Wakefield's Enquiry into . .
. Public or Social Worship appears in May. John Aikin moves to
London to escape persecution. |
| 1793 | AB
contributes to John Aikin's Evenings at
Home (volumes 1-2 appear in January) and publishes Sins of
Government, Sins of the Nation (April). |
| 1794 | AB visits
Scotland in September and
October. |
| 1795 | "Essay on
Akenside's Poem on the Pleasures of
Imagination." |
| 1796 | Monthly
Magazine edited by John Aikin
until 1806. AB writes poems and essays for the MM. |
| 1797 | AB meets
Coleridge in August. |
| 1798 | John Aikin
moves to Stoke Newington after an
illness. |
| 1802 | Barbaulds
move to Stoke Newington in March. |
| 1803 | Annual
Review edited to 1809 by Arthur
Aikin, the nephew of AB. AB contributes to AR. |
| 1804 | AB's edition
of Samuel Richardson's
Correspondence (6 volumes) including a biography appears in
June. |
| 1805 | AB's edition,
Selections from the Spectator,
Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder, with a Preliminary Essay appears
in February. |
| 1806 | John Aikin
resigns from the Monthly
Magazine and starts the Athenaeum (edits to
1809). |
| 1807 | AB agrees to
writes prefaces for a collection of British
novels. |
| 1808 | Suicide of
Rochemont Barbauld in November following
his assault on AB in January and their separation in
March. |
| 1809 | AB writes for
the Monthly Review (until
1815). |
| 1810 | Publication
of The British Novelists in
50 volumes.
| 1811 | AB edits
The Female Speaker and
completes Eighteen Hundred and Eleven by
December. |
| 1812 | Eighteen Hundred and Eleven appears in
January. |
| 1822 | Death of John
Aikin. |
| 1825 | Death of AB
at Stoke Newington on 9 March.
Works and A Legacy for Young Ladies, edited by
Lucy Aikin, AB's niece, appear. | |