John Saville

Standard Name: Saville, John

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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, 1931.
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, 1931.
178
Vicar Choral at Lichfield, though he married somebody else. This relationship attracted some disapproving gossip: Bishop Thomas Percy
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, 1931.
134, 233
She also enjoyed keeping pets...
Reception Anna Seward
A little later, in 1789-90, she was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers.
Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011–2013, 3 vols.
But she seems to have conformed too well for her own good to the general public's preconceptions of what a female...

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Texts

Bellamy, Joyce M., and John Saville, editors. Dictionary of Labour Biography. Macmillan, 1972.