LUCY AIKIN - THIRD PERSON AUTOGRAPH LETTER - HFSID 296544
Price: $220.00
LUCY AIKIN
She accepts an invitation for the evening, signing in the third
person
Third Person Autograph Letter. 4½x2½ affixed to a 6x3½ piece of
paper. No place, no date. In full: "Miss Aikin will have great
pleasure in availing herself of Mr. & Mrs. Newman's very obliging invitation
for this evening. Thursday morning". Lucy Aikin (1781-1864) was part
of a very talented English family. Her father, John Aikin, was a medical doctor
and influential essayist and biographer. Her brother, Arthur Aikin, was a noted
chemist and mineralogist. Her aunt, Anna Letitia Barbauld, was a poet, essayist
and author of widely used children's primers, a woman whose outspoken radicalism
offended English mores of the time but who has been rediscovered by modern
feminist scholars. Lucy Aikin herself was best known as a historian. She
published biographies of British monarchs Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I,
and of other prominent persons. She helped preserve the memory of Anna Letitia
Barbauld, Romantic poet and social reformer who was influential until her
poem 1811, opposing Britain's war against Napoleon, turned opinion
against her. Paperclip indentation at top right. Light foxing. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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