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Anna Seward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anna Seward Pruitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anna (Seward) Pruitt (1862 - 1948), was born in Tallmadge, Ohio, on May 16, 1862, the daughter of John Woodhouse and Urania (Ashley) Seward. She traveled west in the early 1880s to teach school in Oj...
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Anna Seward; 1747-1809 ... Anna Seward was a poet and a prolific correspondent of the late eighteenth century. She was the daughter of Thomas Seward, the canon of Lichfield, and Elizabeth Hunter. Elizabeth died and left Thomas a widower--an event that left Anna without a mother but with the freedom not to marry.
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Isle of Lesbos : Poetry : Historical : Amy Lowell ... Amy Lowell (27k JPG image), American Imagist poet, was a woman of great accomplishment. She was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, to a prominent family of high-achievers. ... Her poetic career began in 1902 when she saw Eleonora Duse, a famous actress,
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Anna Seward; (1742-1809) ... Celebrated in her lifetime as “the Swan of Lichfield”, Anna Seward was born in Eyam, in Derbyshire, where her father Thomas Seward was Rector. Her mother Elizabeth, née Hunter, was the daughter of the headmaster of Lichfield Grammar School, where Samuel Johnson had been a pupil.
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One of the best known English women poets of her time, Anna Seward had several romantic friendships with women and celebrated the Ladies of Llangollen in verse. ... Dubbed the "Swan of Lichfield," Anna Seward was eldest daughter of Thomas Seward, canon residentiary of Lichfield Cathedral. Encouraged to write by Erasmus...
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To Mr. Henry Cary, on the Publication of His Sonnets ... On a Lock of Miss Sarah Seward's Hair, Who Died in Her Twentieth Year ... Anna Seward (1747-1809)
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Memoirs of the life of Dr. Darwin, chiefly during his residence in Lichfield, with anecdotes of his friends, and criticisms on his writings - Seward, Anna, ...
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A collected edition of the poetry of Anna Seward, in three volumes, was edited by Sir Walter Scott and was published in 1810. Her letters, in six volumes, appeared in 1811. ... The actor and biographer Hesketh Pearson (1887-1964) published a study of Anna Seward and her world entitled The swan of Lichfield in 1936.
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¶ Seward was a prominent woman of letters in her day, having, for example, the admiration of Wordsworth & Scott, and whose disapproval of Dr. Johnson is as well chronicled as her support of young writers of the era is, perhaps, under appreciated.
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