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.
REFERENCES TO Anna Seward [the Swan of Lichfield]: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [April 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [29 June 1802] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [16 August 1802] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [March 1803] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynne, 25 June 1805 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 14 October 1805 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [September 1806] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 7 Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [September 1807] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 16 August 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 16 August 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 6 January 1809 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 18 March 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Gifford to John Murray, 17 May 1811 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 19 September 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 6 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XV. 1786-1790 Found 1: ¶ 15 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1800-02 Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter XI 1802-03 Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 28 Chapter XII 1803-04 Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 Chapter I 1804-05 Found 1: ¶ 33 Chapter II 1805 Chapter IV 1806-08 Found 2: ¶ 11 ¶ 14 Chapter VI 1808-09 Found 1: ¶ 11 Chapter VII 1809-10 Found 1: ¶ 34 Vol VII Preface Found 1: ¶ 12 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XI. 1804-1805 Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. XIV. 1808 Ch. XV. 1809 Found 1: ¶ 1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ 82 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 48 Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter IX. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 2: 1808-13 Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1800 Found 1: ¶ 4