Winner, 2011 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice
Against the background of the American and French revolutions, the Napoleonic Wars, and the struggle for religious equality in Great Britain, a brilliant, embattled woman strove to defend Enlightenment values to her nation. Poet, teacher, essayist, political writer, editor, and critic, Anna Letitia Barbauld was venerated by contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic, among them the young Walter Scott, the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and...
Winner, 2011 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies