Seward, Anna (1742 - 1809)
| Short name | Seward, Anna |
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| First name | Anna |
| Birth name | Seward |
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| Alternative name | The Swan of Lichfield |
| Date of birth | 1742 |
| Date of death | 1809 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | Eyam |
| Place of death | Lichfield |
| Lived in | England |
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| Religion / ideology | Catholic |
| Education | Educated at home, Self-educated |
| Aristocratic title | - |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
Seward, Anna was ...
| related to | Thrale, Hester |
| related to | More, Hannah |
| related to | Helen Maria Williams |
| related to | Maria Edgeworth |
| related to | Lady Anne Miller |
| related to | Mary Scott Taylor |
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| Place(s) of Residence | England |
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Receptions of Seward, Anna, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
| Title | Author | Date | Type |
- Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan: An Account of Anna Seward and Her Acquaintance with Dr. Johnson, Boswell, and Others of Her Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931.
- Barnard, Teresa. Anna Seward: A Constructed Life. A Critical Biography. Burlington: Ashgate, 2009.
- Clarke, Norma. “Anna Seward: Swan, Duckling or Goose?”. In Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan (eds.) British Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century: Authorship, Politics and History. New York: Palgrave, 2005:34-47.
- Kairoff, Claudia T. Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
- Kelly, Jennifer. Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1798-1785. Volume 4: Anna Seward. London: Pickering and Chatto, 1999.
- Lucas, E. V. A Swan and her Friends. London: Methuen, 1907.
- Scott, Walter. “Anna Seward”. In Anonymous (ed.) Women of History. Selected from the Writings of Standard Authors. Edinburgh: W.P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1890. Np.
- Stapleton, M. Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield. Deighton and Co, 1909.
MENTIONED IN:
- Backsheider, Paula R. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "She was very well-known throughout the 1780's, and a formidable (if ridiculed) figure throughout this and the next decade". Cf.
- Clarke, Norma. The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters. 2004 (see under Elstob).
- Faderman, Lillian. Surpassing the Love of Man: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: Harper Collins, 1981.
Her closest relatives called her Nancy (as seen in the letters from her parents). Some of her friends called her Julia (as seen in Monody on Major André). Her adopted foster sister, Honora Sneyd, married Richard Edgeworth and raised his children, including Maria Edgeworth. She also gave birth to two other children.