Anna Lætitia Barbauld — a remark

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“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”

Linking moral development with happiness rather than severity · Educational writing, commonly attributed

About Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Anna Lætitia Barbauld

20 June 1743–9 March 1825

Anna Lætitia Barbauld, born Anna Aikin on 20 June 1743 and dead on 9 March 1825, was one of the most accomplished, influential, and later most unjustly neglected writers of the British Romantic era. Poet, essayist, editor, critic, educational reformer, author for children, and public intellectual, she wrote across…

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