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Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Anna [Aiken] Barbauld letter (Dickinson College Special Collections) Jennifer Lindbeck, Class of ’98, Dickinson College Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825) was born on June 20, 1743, in Leicestershire, England, the eldest daughter of John Aikin, a Dissenting clergyman and … Continue reading
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the author of one of the most widely read and often redacted novels of the past two centuries. Frankenstein; or, … Continue reading
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