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ANNA SEWARD (1747-1809)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 733 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANNA See also:SEWARD (1747-1809)  , See also:English writer, often called the " See also:Swan of See also:Lichfield," was the See also:elder daughter of See also:Thomas See also:Seward (1708-1790), See also:prebendary of Lichfield and of See also:Salisbury, and author . See also:Born at Eyam in See also:Derbyshire, she passed nearly all her See also:life in Lichfield, beginning at an See also:early See also:age to write See also:poetry partly at the instigation of Dr . See also:Erasmus See also:Darwin . Her verses include elegies and sonnets, and she also wrote a poetical novel, Louisa, of which five See also:editions were published . See also:Miss Seward's writings, which include a large number of letters, are decidedly See also:commonplace, and See also:Horace See also:Walpole said she had " no imagina- tion, no novelty." See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott edited her Poetical See also:Works in three volumes (See also:Edinburgh, 181o); to these he prefixed a memoir of the authoress, adding extracts from her See also:literary See also:correspondence . He refused, however, to edit the bulk of her letters, and these were published in six volumes by A . See also:Constable as Letters of See also:Anna Seward 1784-1807 (Edinburgh, 1811) . Miss Seward also wrote See also:Memoirs of the Life of Dr Darwin (1804) . See E . V . See also:Lucas, A Swan and her See also:Friends (1907); and S . See also:Martin, Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield (19o9) .

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