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Tables of Contents for Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Acknowledgments
9
11
Introduction
11
22
Anna Letitia Barbauld: A Brief Chronology
33
4
Abbreviations of Titles Cited in the Notes
37
1
A Note on the Text
38
3
An Address to the Diety
41
3
To Mrs. P[riestley], with some Drawings of Birds and Insects
44
5
The Invitation: To Miss B*****
49
6
To Dr. Aikin on his Complaining that she neglected him, October 20th 1768
55
4
Corsica
59
7
On the Death of Mrs. Jennings
66
2
On the Backwardness of the Spring 1771
68
1
The Mouse's Petition
69
4
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study
73
2
Song I
75
2
Song V
77
2
To Wisdom
79
1
Hymn II
80
2
Hymn V
82
1
The Groans of the Tankard
83
4
Verses written in an Alcove
87
2
Hymn to Content
89
3
Ode to Spring
92
2
To a Lady, with some painted Flowers
94
2
Verses on Mrs. Rowe
96
2
A Summer Evening's Meditation
98
4
Hymn VI
102
1
To Mr. Barbauld, November 14, 1778
103
2
Love and Time
105
3
Lines to be spoken by Thomas Denman, on the Christmas before his Birthday, when he was four Years old
108
1
Written on a Marble
109
1
A School Eclogue
110
5
Autumn: A Fragment
115
1
To the Baron de Stonne, who had wished at the next Transit of Mercury to find Himself again between Mrs. Laborde and Mrs. B[arbauld]
116
2
Epistle to Dr. Enfield, on his Revisiting Warrington in 1789
118
3
Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade
121
6
The Apology of the Bishops, in Answer to ``Bonner's Ghost''
127
3
The Rights of Woman
130
2
Hymn VII
132
1
To a Great Nation
133
2
To Dr. Priestley. Dec. 29, 1792
135
1
Hymn: ``Ye are the salt of the earth''
136
3
To the Poor
139
1
Inscription for an Ice-House
140
2
To Mr. S. T. Coleridge
142
1
Washing-Day
143
4
To a Little Invisible Being who is expected soon to become Visible
147
2
On the Death of Mrs. Martineau
149
1
[Lines for Anne Wakefield on her Wedding to Charles Rochemont Aikin, with a Pair of Chimney Ornaments in the Figures of two Females seated with open Books]
150
2
West End Fair
152
2
The Pilgrim
154
2
Dirge: Written November 1808
156
2
On the King's Illness
158
2
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, a Poem
160
14
Life
174
1
A Thought on Death
175
1
The First Fire
176
3
The Caterpillar
179
2
On the Death of the Princess Charlotte
181
2
The Baby-House
183
2
Lines written at the Close of the Year
185
1
Against Inconsistency in our Expectations
186
9
An Enquiry into those Kinds of Distress which Excite agreeable Sensations
195
14
Thoughts on the Devotional Taste, on Sects, and on Establishments
209
25
Hymns in Prose for Children
234
27
An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts
261
21
Fashion, a Vision
282
8
Pieces from Evenings at Home
290
7
The Young Mouse. A Fable
290
1
Things by their Right Names
291
2
The Four Sisters
293
4
Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation; or, a Discourse for the Fast, Appointed on April 19, 1793
297
24
What Is Education?
321
12
On Prejudice
333
12
Thoughts on the Inequality of Conditions
345
11
Letter from Grimalkin to Selima
356
4
From ``Life of Samuel Richardson, with Remarks on his Writings''
360
15
From The British Novelists
375
81
On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing
377
40
From Fielding
417
8
Johnson
425
7
Mrs. Inchbald
432
4
Mrs. Charlotte Smith
436
6
Miss Burney
442
8
Mrs. Radcliffe
450
6
[Letter to the Gentleman's Magazine in Defense of Maria Edgeworth's Tale, ``The Dun'']
456
7
Dialogue in the Shades
463
11
On Female Studies
474
9
Appendix A: From Elizabeth Carter, All the Works of Epictetus
483
3
Appendix B: The Debate on Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 1787-1790
486
9
Appendix C: The Royal Proclamation of a Fast in April 1793
495
2
Appendix D: The British Novelists: Predecessors, Contents, Allusions
497
8
Sources of the Texts
505
2
Bibliography
507