| Bibliography |
- 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. |