Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company.
John Saville
Standard Name: Saville, John
Connections
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Reception | Anna Seward | A little later, in 1789-90, she was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers. |
Leisure and Society | Anna Seward | She was a keen concert-goer (partly, no doubt, because of her involvement with the musician John Saville
). She attended music festivals at both Manchester and Birmingham. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 134, 233 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Seward | When her dear friend John Saville
died suddenly, AS
mourned (as her biographer says) like a widow: she set up a monument, wrote his epitaph, and secluded herself for three months. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 239-42 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Seward | Ashmun states clearly that the great love and passion of [Seward's] life was for John Saville
, Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 178 |
Cultural formation | Anna Seward | It is ironical that AS
, who during her lifetime progressed from suffering the opprobrium reserved for the old maid to suffering sly criticism (behind her back) for the allegedly improper nature of her relationship... |
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Texts
Bellamy, Joyce M., and John Saville, editors. Dictionary of Labour Biography. Macmillan, 1972.