Thomas Seward

Standard Name: Seward, Thomas

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Seward
Thomas Seward , AS 's father, became a canon of Lichfield, which became and remained the family's home.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Seward
Thomas Seward , AS 's father, died after years of senility; she was left far freer than before to travel and to spend time in London.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Occupation Anna Seward
AS 's mother died; from this time Anna ran the household at the Bishop's Palace for her father , who had independent means, increasingly poor health, and before long senility.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
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Textual Features Mary Scott
In her poem of praise MS finds space to mention some men to whom women owe a debt for their support: John Duncombe (her original inspiration), the Rev. Thomas Seward (author of The Female Right...
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS was writing religious verse at ten or twelve years old.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
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When she was fifteen Erasmus Darwin , who had formed a high opinion of the originality of her verses, took an opportunity while...

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