Margaret Ashmun

Standard Name: Ashmun, Margaret

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Birth Anna Seward
AS was born at Eyam in Derbyshire, where her father was then rector.
Eyam was pronounced eem. Biographer Margaret Ashmun gives the birth-date in new style (eleven days later) although new style was...
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Seward
She was nearly fourteen when the five-year-old Honora Sneyd , whose mother was dead, came to live in the Seward household.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
9-10
This early friendship was crucial to her. When Honora married Maria Edgeworth 's...
Friends, Associates Anna Seward
In her last years AS availed herself of the services of a Miss Fern as a (presumably paid) companion.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
244-6
She had struck up an acquaintance with the young Walter Scott (who sent some of...

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Texts

Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.