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Anna Seward (
December 12,
1747 –
March 25,
1809) was an
English poet, often called the
Swan of Lichfield.
Life
Seward was the elder daughter of
Thomas Seward (1708-1790),
prebendary of
Lichfield and
Salisbury, and
author. Born at
Eyam in
Derbyshire, she passed nearly all her life in Lichfield, beginning at an early age to write
poetry partly at the instigation of
Erasmus Darwin. Author of
Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional (1760), her verses include
elegies and
sonnets, and she also wrote a poetical
novel,
Louisa, of which five editions were published. Seward's writings, which include a large number of letters, have been called "commonplace".
Horace Walpole said she'd "no imagination, no novelty." She was praised, however, by
Mary Scott in
The Female Advocate (1774).
Between
1775 and
1781, Seward was a guest and participant at the, much mocked,
salon held by
Anna Miller at
Batheaston. However, it was here that Seward's talent was recognised and her work published in the annual volume of poems from the gatherings, a debt that Seward acknowledged in her
Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller (1782).
Sir
Walter Scott edited Seward's
Poetical Works in three volumes (Edinburgh, 1810). To these he prefixed a memoir of the author, adding extracts from her literary correspondence. He declined, however, to edit the bulk of her letters, and these were published in six volumes by A. Constable as
Letters of Anna Seward 1784-1807 (Edinburgh, 1811). Seward also wrote
Memoirs of the Life of Dr Darwin (1804).
There is a plaque to Anna, misspelled "Anne", Seward in
Lichfield Cathedral.
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