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Religious Dissent And The Aikin-Barbauld Circle 1740-1860: Book Review, Nigel Aston
Religious Dissent And The Aikin-Barbauld Circle 1740-1860: Book Review, Nigel Aston
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
There has been a remarkable rise of interest during the last decade in Anna Letitia Barbauld's (nee Aikin) significance in the formation of Romantic literature, and Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle 1740-1860 places her appropriately within the thriving nexus of her intellectually creative Dissenting family. This volume of nine essays has its origins in a conference at Dr. Williams's library, currently the engine room of many initiatives into British dissenting history. The Aikins were a talented, hardworking, group of men and women down several generations, sparking off each other, inspired by their non -trinitarian Christian faith, and making complex …