| Notes: | From the Wikipedia article on Barbauld:
H. P. Lovecraft praised her Gothic fragment "The Story of Sir Bertrand" in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (composed 1925–34), describing it as a story "in which the strings of genuine terror were truly touched with no clumsy hand" and praises "the real vibration to the note of outer darkness and mystery which distinguishes Mrs. Barbauld’s fragment."[58] However, the attribution of this Bertrand-story to Anna is probably incorrect. It has been pointed out several times that this piece was written by her brother John, see for instance the Analytical Review in 1798, as well as the preface by John Aikin's daughter Lucy Aikin to Anna's collected works in 1825, stating that "Sir Bertrand: A Fragment" have "been generally misappropriated" and has been repeatedly ascribed to Mrs. Barbauld, even in print". The story was printed beside an essay in their Miscellaneous Pieces, In Prose in 1773, as "On the pleasure derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment", and according to Lucy Anna wrote the essay and John the story.
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