Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Anna Letitia Barbauld, English poet and general writer, was born in Leicestershire, 1743, daughter of a Presbyterian minister named Aikin. She published a small volume of miscellaneous poems in 1772, and in 1773, in conjunction with her brother, Dr. John Aikin, a collection of pieces in prose. She was a prominent English Romantic poet, essayist, and children's author.