John Aikin
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John Aikin was an English medical doctor and surgeon. Later in life he devoted himself wholly to biography and writing in periodicals.
John Aikin, published in 1823
Essay on the application of natural history to poetry, 1777
Evenings at Home
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Evenings at Home, or The Juvenile Budget Opened is a collection of six volumes of stories written by John Aikin and his sister Anna Laetitia Barbauld. It is an early example of children's literature.
John Aikin
…Magazine in 1796, Aikin was its first editor. In conjunction with his sister, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, he published a popular series of volumes entitled Evenings at Home (6 vols, 1792–1795), for elementary family reading, which were translated into almost every European language. In 1798 Aikin retired altogether from…
Title page from a later (1858) edition.
Frontispiece to the 1858 Longman and Co. et al. edition.