English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1115 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
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The idea
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, a Dissenter, poet and writer for children, published Poems under her own name in seventeen seventy-three. Her Epistle to William Wilberforce condemned Parliament's rejection of abolition, and Eighteen Hundred and Eleven attacked Britain's war, drawing hostile reviews.
In practice
Children's teacher, political poet.
Where people slip
Barbauld wrote on slavery and war.
Your place on the trail
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