Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Anna Letitia Barbauld (née Aikin) NPG D4456

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Emery Walker, after Henry Meyer

A leading early Romantic writer, Barbauld's first publication, Poems (1773), was a popular and critical success. In 1774, she married Rochemont Barbauld, and the couple established a boarding school in Suffolk. Starting in her brother John Aikin's Monthly Magazine, Barbauld began contributing to periodicals and taking commissions from booksellers. She wrote for the Annual Review (1803-9), edited by her nephew Arthur Aikin, and provided prefaces to editions of Mark Akenside (1794) and William Collins (1797). Her most ambitious work was the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.