Palgrave Academy
Palgrave Academy was an early dissenting academy, that is, a school or college set up by English Dissenters.[1] It was run from 1774 to 1785 in Palgrave, Suffolk - on the border of Norfolk - by the married couple Anna Laetitia Barbauld and her husband Rochemont Barbauld, a minister. The academy attracted parents who wished an alternative to traditional education for their sons.
Beginnings
Anna Laetitia Barbauld was born into the tradition of the so-called dissenting academies, as her father
The couple spent eleven years teaching at Palgrave Academy. Early on, Anna Laetitia Barbauld was not only responsible for running her own household but also the school's—she was accountant, maid, and housekeeper.[4]
The school opened with only eight boys, but when the Barbaulds left in 1785, around forty were enrolled, a testament to the excellent reputation the school had acquired.
Alumni
A number of distinguished parents enrolled their boys at Palgrave, including the nephew of Lady Jane McCarthy, daughter of Prime Minister
References
- ^ # ^ McCarthy, William. "The Celebrated Academy at Palgrave: A Documentary History of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s School". The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997)
- ^ Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld & her Family. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. (1958), 38.
- ^ Rodgers, 63–4.
- ^ McCarthy, William. "The Celebrated Academy at Palgrave: A Documentary History of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s School". The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 8 (1997), 282.
- ^ McCarthy, "Academy," 284–5.
- ^ McCarthy, "Academy", 292.
- ^ McCarthy, "Academy", 298.
- ^ McCarthy, "Academy", 306.
- ^ Heller, D. (2016). Bluestockings Now!: The Evolution of a Social Role. Taylor and Francis Group. p. 114. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
...a nephew of Lady Jane McCarthy, daughter of the Prime Minister Earl of Bute, King George III's favourite] was a pupil of Palgrave...was Margaret Georgiana, Countess Spencer (1737–1814), whose donations to needy individuals and worthy causes were...The secretary to Spencer's charity committee in 1774 was John Burrows,...Burrows knew personally the leading intellectuals among the Bluestocking women...
- ^ https://archive.org/stream/worksofannlaetit01barbuoft/worksofannlaetit01barbuoft_djvu.txt Memoir of Mrs Barbauld by Lucy Aikin
- ^ Qtd. in Rodgers, 75.
- ^ Mrs. Barbauld, Anna Letitia (1994). The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld. University of Georgia Press. p. 279. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
Philip Meadows , solicitor , of Diss ( 1719–83 ) , was a sponsor of Palgrave School ...
- ^ James, F. (2012). Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740–1860. University of Cambridge Press. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
Sarah Meadows Martineau, the descendant of a Unitarian minister, was matriarch of the Norwich Martineau clan, ...had sent her children...to Barbauld's school at Palgrave; she was the grandmother of Harriet Martineau
- ^ McCarthy, W. (2008). Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 231. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
The youngest Martineau son [Thomas/Tommy] may have been one of the first eight Palgrave boys...Barbauld/Martineau relationship began with Tommy Martineau's arrival at Palgrave that lasted for 50 years...