Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose

Name: Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose
Author: John Aikin

by John Aikin, Mrs. (Anna Letitia) Barbauld

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Shaun Pinder, Fay Dunn and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2015-01-24

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Public domain in the USA.

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English prose literature -- 18th century

About the authors

John Aikin

1747–1822

A physician by training and a man of letters by instinct, this 18th-century English writer moved easily between medicine, education, biography, and literary criticism. His work helped make serious knowledge feel lively and approachable for general readers.

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Mrs. (Anna Letitia) Barbauld

1743–1825

A vivid voice of the English Enlightenment, she wrote poetry, essays, and pioneering books for children that helped shape literary culture in Britain. Her work mixed moral seriousness with clarity and wit, and it still stands out for its intelligence and humane spirit.

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