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See also: English writer, often called the " See also: Swan of See also: Lichfield," was the elder daughter of See also: Thomas Seward (1708-1790), prebendary of Lichfield and of
See also: Salisbury, and author
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See also: Born at Eyam in See also: Derbyshire, she passed nearly all her See also: life in Lichfield, beginning at an early age to write See also: poetry partly at the instigation of Dr
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See also: Erasmus Darwin
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Her verses include elegies and sonnets, and she also wrote a poetical novel, Louisa, of which five See also: editions were published
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See also: Miss Seward's writings, which include a large number of letters, are decidedly See also: commonplace, and Horace Walpole said she had " no imagina-
tion, no novelty."
See also: Sir 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
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He refused, however, to edit the bulk of her letters, and these were published in six volumes by A
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See also: Constable as Letters of Anna Seward 1784-1807 (Edinburgh, 1811)
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Miss Seward also wrote See also: Memoirs of the Life of Dr Darwin (1804)
.
See E
.
V
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Lucas, A Swan and her See also: Friends (1907); and S
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See also: Martin, Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield (19o9)
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