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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Influences on AR
's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley
's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 67 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Cave | This edition arranges the poems by genre (unlike all her later editions), and includes an errata leaf. It also has a portrait of the author with a pen in her hand poised awkwardly over the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Plumptre | Again a number of poets are quoted as chapter-headings; this time they include at least one woman, Anna Seward
. As to plot, this novel has been categorized as a prototypical forerunner of the thriller... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Holford | The American-born British officer Spencer Thomas Vassall, aged forty, was mortally wounded while leading his troops at the storming of Montevideo on 3 February 1807. His body was brought home and buried at Bristol under... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Annie Tinsley | Set seventy years earlier, thus at the close of the eighteenth century, it features a suitor who professedly did not understand poetry, and who questioned the right of a woman to waste her time in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | Literary discussion spills over from the preface into the text. The Rev. Edward Marsham, surprisingly for one of his profession, finds Hannah More
's Coelebs too religious; he prefers canonical novelists who teach virtue and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sappho | Sappho
's name was an honorific for women writers for generations. George Puttenham
may have been the first to use it to compliment a writing woman: in Parthienades, 1579, he said that Queen Elizabeth |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | ES
balances her story of love and adventure with the depiction of everyday life in a Scottish castle, including food, clothing, pastimes, heraldry, and chivalric tournaments, Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol. 7 , Dec. 2001. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Harvey | The title-page quotes Anna Seward
. JH
uses a more elaborate style in this novel than formerly. It centres on Matilda, daughter of the widowed Earl of Colchester, and on Mrs Clarendon, the widow of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Critic Margaret Doody
identifies Emily's poem The Sea-Nymph as a response to Anna Seward
's Song of the Fairies to the Sea-nymphs, while Rictor Norton
notes that the incident in which Emily hears gondoliers... |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | As hostess she entertained a talented and faintly bohemian circle. The Prince of Wales
came to breakfast, but some ladies at the head of society found her not sufficiently respectable to visit. George III
felt... |
| Leisure and Society | Jane Austen | Art historian Richard James Wheeler
, a strong supporter of the Rice portrait, also argued that a watercolour sketch by James Stanier Clarke
, the Prince of Wales's librarian (a full-length portrait of only six... |
| Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | They treated the house like a smaller version of an ancestral family estate. They added various improvements, like the library at the back, which had windows in pointed gothic arches, paintings and miniatures on the... |
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