AIKIN, LUCY (1781-1864)
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature · 1910 · p. 1
—Historical and miscellaneous writer, dau. of above and niece of Mrs. Barbauld ( q.v. ). After pub. a poem, Epistles on Women , and a novel, Lorimer , she began the historical works on which her reputation chiefly rests, viz., Memoirs of the Courts of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I. (1818-33) and a Life of Add is on . She also wrote lives of her father and of Mrs. Barbauld. She was remarkable for her conversational powers, and was also an admirable letter-writer. Like the rest of her family she was a Unitarian.
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