The Romantic Period: Age Of Revolution By Anna Letitia Barbauld

The Romantic Period : Age of Revolution

The Romantic Period is a very enthralling era in British history. From it’s poetry prose, literature, and music, it dishes out ample history for the modern romantics to be engulfed by.Considered the shortest period in British history, it takes place between the years of 1785 to 1832, a chapter when revolution was the overarching theme as the French, American, European, and Haitian Revolution were on going. It revisited a lot of the wild verse-tales of adventure, chivalry and love, which had been previously ignored by literary historians. This period in time held much significance for women’s place in society, women rights, and not forgetting the connection between nature and an individualistic imagination of it. Empowering individuals to speak

Anna Letitia Barbauld. Anna was born June 20th 1743 and had an influential upbringing which reflects in her writing. Her father was the headmaster of the Dissenting Academy in Kibworth Harcourt which during the mid-seventeen century was a significant part of the English educational system. Growing up in a neighborhood where she was the only girl, it curved her curiosity toward the need to stand out and enhance a female presence. Her writing began in form of letters that she would write for and to women, in effort to vividly express the status of women in the 80th century. Her literary debut was in 1773 with Poems and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, which established her as a leading author. Her most common piece is, “To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible” which resonated immensely with the women of the 80th century. It narrated the feelings surrounding the period when a child is to be born. The excitement, anxiety, hope, and love that comes with it. She paints the image of a child’s potential once they are introduced to the world as a blank slate that has the latent capability to