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.

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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 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 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...
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.
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AR probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...
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.
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in the reign of Edward III . Her preface...
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 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 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 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 Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
MAS adds a new aesthetic category, the contemplative sublime, alongside the Burke an or terrible sublime and other categories related to the Burkean beautiful. She derives her thinking from women as well as men. In...
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...
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...
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...

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