Religious Dissent and the Aikin–Barbauld circle, 1740–1860

Abstract

Foreword isabel rivers and david l. wykes xi 1 Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld circle, 1740-1860: an introduction felicity james 1 2 The Revd John Aikin senior: Kibworth School and Warrington Academy david l. wykes 28 3 How Dissent made Anna Letitia Barbauld, and what she made of Dissent william mc carthy 52 4 'And make thine own Apollo doubly thine': John Aikin as literary physician and the intersection of medicine, morality and politics kathryn ready 70 5 'Outline maps of knowledge': John Aikin's geographical imagination stephen daniels and paul elliott 94 6 'Under the eye of the public': Arthur Aikin (1773-1854), the Dissenting mind and the character of English industrialization

Charlotte Malkin's Waterloo Diary and the Politics of Waterloo Tourism

“… An idea of the family as ‘the institution most capable of effecting profound national change’ has been seen by Felicity James as characteristic of the Aikin – Barbauld circle with which the Malkins were associated in the early 1800s. (22) James also comments on the style of teaching at the dissenting academies where ‘the teaching style was characterized by familiar intimacy between teachers and students, and by teaching in ‘ordinary’ language – eschewing Latin, using techniques of discussion and exchange, and employing a much wider curriculum than the ancient universities’.…”