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I'm glad that Wikipedia has an article on Anna Seward but I think this page needs some additions and maybe a few amendments.
Amendments
Her name isn't spelt incorrectly on her memorial - her real name was Anne, but she called herself Anna, although her family actually called her Nancy.
I'm unsure about the statement that Walter Scott 'refused' to publish her letters, I could not find this. Is there a reference? Whilst it seems probable that he did not want to edit the six vols, he was quite taken with Seward when he visited her in Lichfield. In her will and a posthumous letter to Scott she states that she won't ask him to publish the main letters as they had different political views.
Lastly, the evaluation "Seward's writings, which include a large number of letters, are decidedly commonplace, and Horace Walpole said she had " no imagination, no novelty." " is too negative considering that in her lifetime Seward was described as the Muse of Elegy (by Hayley).
Additions
The debate/argument with Boswell in the Gentleman's Magazine over Boswell's biography of Dr. Johnson.
Her contributions to the Gentleman's Magazine more generally and the poems written about her.
The success of her Monody on Captain Cook and Monody on Major Andre and Llangollen Vale.
Question
I'm unsure whether something needs to be included about the relationship with her adopted sister Honora and the love and devotion that Seward felt for her. Whilst much has been made about this by historians trying to prove the ubiquity of homosexual female relationships in the eighteenth century, it is highly debatable.
I have not edited before, please could you give me some advice before I make these additions.
Summer Laton 20:35, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
In 'The Lunar Men' Jenny Uglow gives Anna's date of birth as 1742. What's the authority for the date of brith given here? Calligrammega ( talk) 15:50, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
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I'm glad that Wikipedia has an article on Anna Seward but I think this page needs some additions and maybe a few amendments.
Amendments
Her name isn't spelt incorrectly on her memorial - her real name was Anne, but she called herself Anna, although her family actually called her Nancy.
I'm unsure about the statement that Walter Scott 'refused' to publish her letters, I could not find this. Is there a reference? Whilst it seems probable that he did not want to edit the six vols, he was quite taken with Seward when he visited her in Lichfield. In her will and a posthumous letter to Scott she states that she won't ask him to publish the main letters as they had different political views.
Lastly, the evaluation "Seward's writings, which include a large number of letters, are decidedly commonplace, and Horace Walpole said she had " no imagination, no novelty." " is too negative considering that in her lifetime Seward was described as the Muse of Elegy (by Hayley).
Additions
The debate/argument with Boswell in the Gentleman's Magazine over Boswell's biography of Dr. Johnson.
Her contributions to the Gentleman's Magazine more generally and the poems written about her.
The success of her Monody on Captain Cook and Monody on Major Andre and Llangollen Vale.
Question
I'm unsure whether something needs to be included about the relationship with her adopted sister Honora and the love and devotion that Seward felt for her. Whilst much has been made about this by historians trying to prove the ubiquity of homosexual female relationships in the eighteenth century, it is highly debatable.
I have not edited before, please could you give me some advice before I make these additions.
Summer Laton 20:35, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
In 'The Lunar Men' Jenny Uglow gives Anna's date of birth as 1742. What's the authority for the date of brith given here? Calligrammega ( talk) 15:50, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
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