Description: (British Poet, Essayist, Literary Critic, Editor, and Author of Children’s Literature)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, author of children's literature, and noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy. Her writing career spanned over half a century, during which she made significant contributions to British literary history across multiple genres. Barbauld's work promoted enlightenment values and sensibility, playing a key role in the development of British Romanticism. While facing criticism and marginalization in later years, she was rediscovered and celebrated by feminist literary critics in the 1980s.