Anna Seward [the Swan of Lichfield]

(1742-1809)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Seward, Anna, 1742-1809 NRA: Seward Anna (1747-1809) author DNB: Seward, Anna [called the Swan of Lichfield] (1742-1809), poet and correspondent LBT ID: AnSewar1809 VIAF ID: 27208300 LOC ID: n50001402	B/BAP: 1742-12-12 DIED: 1809-03-25
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English poet, patron, and letter-writer; she was the center of a literary circle at Lichfield. Her Poetical Works, 3 vols (1810) were edited by Walter Scott.
CORRESPONDENCE OF Anna Seward [the Swan of Lichfield]: Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [29 June 1802] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [16 August 1802] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [March 1803] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Walter Scott to Anna Seward, 21 March 1805 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [September 1806] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [September 1807] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)