Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (1743-1825)

English poet and editor, a sister of John Aikin. She published Hymns in Prose for Children (1781), followed by Evenings at Home (1796), and edited Selections from the English Essayists, The Letters of Samuel Richardson, and a 50-volume collection of the British novelists, with an introductory essay, in 1810.

She was born in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. In 1773 she published a collection of miscellaneous poems.