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Anna Seward
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Standard Name: Seward, Anna
Birth Name: Anna Seward
Nickname: The Swan of Lichfield
Nickname: Nancy
AS
, living at a distance from London, was nevertheless a woman of letters, of the later eighteenth century and just beyond. She staked her claim to fame firstly on her poetry (though she was always willing to try genres unusual to her, like sermons and a biography of Erasmus Darwin
), secondly on her letters. In these and in her newspaper contributions she was also a literary critic, familiar with the criteria of both the Augustan and Romantic eras and gifted besides with an unfailing independence of judgement.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | The Critical's notice was long and positive. Elizabeth Gilding
praised HMW
's Peru in a poem which the Gentleman's Magazine published in July, and Anna Seward
in a poem which appeared the next year... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Anna Seward
included CS
in her list of living celebrated Female Poets Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. (1789): 292 Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. (1789): 292 |
| Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Again she had the lead review spot in the Critical, which loved the book and quoted at length. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2d ser. 14 (1795): 241-55 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | The young Jane Austen
paid Emmeline the compliment of allusion in her comical History of England, 1791.Anna Seward
, on the other hand, condemned CS
for indelicacy because she had exposed her husband's... |
| Literary responses | Anne Bannerman | The notice in the Critical Review was uncomplimentary, dismissing her as an imitator of Scott
, John Leyden
, and William Wordsworth
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 38 (1803): 110ff Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999. 143 |
| Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 221-2 |
| Literary responses | Hannah Cowley | Anna Seward
included HC
among her seven celebrated Female Poets Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 59 (1789): 292 |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | In June 1806 Seward
wrote to a friend who had just met the young Holford, about Holford's poetry and particularly the beautiful elegy, addressed to me (which may or may not be the above-mentioned ode)... |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | William Enfield
quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy
. Her volume... |
| Literary responses | Mary Whateley Darwall | In April 1774 (ten years on from her first volume but long before her second) the Monthly Review (in a notice of Hannah More
's The Inflexible Captive) listed MWD
as one of the... |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More
, Anna Seward
, and Elizabeth Carter
, who found some passages amazingly sublime. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 193 |
| Literary responses | Amelia Opie | The Critical Review introduced its laudatory notice by praising the current standard of women's poetry (a tradition, it says, less than a century old). It invokes the canonical names of Seward
, Barbauld
, and... |
| Literary responses | Melesina Trench | One of those the few who noticed and admired her poetry was Anna Seward
. Kittredge, Katharine. “Melesina Chenevix St. John Trench (1768-1827)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol. 10 , No. 2, 1 June 2006– 2024, pp. 4-6. 5 |
| Literary responses | Anne Grant | Letters from the Mountains was not noticed in the Edinburgh Review, an omission which Grant attributed to gender prejudice. Perkins, Pamela. “Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy”. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, edited by Emma Clery et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, pp. 29-43. 32 |
| Literary responses | Anne Finch | Barbara McGovern
has disposed (hopefully once and for all) of the mistaken story of Pope
's hostility to AF
. In fact, they shared a literary friendship which Finch found valuable. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992. 102ff |
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