BARBAULD, ANNA LETITIA 2 5 ), English poet and miscellaneous writer, was born at Kibworth-Harcourt, in Leicestershire, on June 20 1743, and married Rochemont Barbauld, a Presbyterian minister. The Barbaulds set up a board ing-school at Palgrave, Suffolk, and Mrs. Barbauld's famous Hymns in Prose for children (1781), an excellent series of simple nature studies, were written for the pupils. The school was aban doned in 1785, and in 1802 the Barbaulds settled in London at Stoke Newington. Mrs. Barbauld died on March 9 1825; her husband had died insane in 1808. Mrs. Barbauld's numerous works include a share in her brother Dr. Aikin's Evenings at Home, editions of Akenside and Collins, the excellent collection of British Novelists (5o vols. 1810) with biographical and criti cal notices. A collected edition of her works, with memoir, was published by her niece, Lucy Aikin, in two volumes in 1825.
See A. L. le Breton, Memoirs of Mrs. Barbauld (1874) ; G. A. Ellis, Life and Letters of Mrs. A. L. Barbauld (1874) ; and Lady Thackeray Ritchie, A Book of Sibyls (1883).