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    Anna Seward (12 December 1742 – 25 March 1809) was an English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield. She benefited from her father's progressive...
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  • Anna (Seward) Pruitt (1862–1948), was a Protestant Christian missionary in Northern China. She belonged to the so-called "missionary generation" of Americans...
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  • The known works of Anna Seward include the following: Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin (1804) Louisa, A Poetical Novel in Four Epistles (1784) (Numbers...
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    known for her associations with literary figures of the day particularly Anna Seward and the Lunar Society, and for her work on children's education. Sneyd...
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    William Henry Seward (/ˈsuːərd/; May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to...
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    famous people including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward, prompting Johnson's remark that Lichfield was "a city of philosophers"...
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  • Darwin Medal Alec Seward (1901–1972), American blues musician Anna Seward (1742–1809), English writer of the 18th century Bill Seward (1958–2022), American...
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    however. Charlotte Smith's doleful Elegiac Sonnets were dismissed by Anna Seward as "everlasting lamentables" and "hackneyed scraps of dismality". Coleridge...
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    the death in infancy of his daughter Jenny. Seward also encouraged one of his surviving daughters, Anna Seward, to write poetry, but only after she moved...
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    Frederick William Seward (July 8, 1830 – April 25, 1915) was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who twice served as the Assistant...
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    Scott: 1787‒1807, ed. H. J. C. Grierson (London, 1932), 166 (Scott to Anna Seward, 30 November 1802). Edgar Johnson, Sir Walter Scott: The Great Unknown...
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    bench next to Mr. Lockwood before being removed hastily by Joseph. The Anna Seward poem An Old Cat's Dying Solilioquy, published in The Gentleman's Magazine...
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    Anna Seward had a devoted friendship to Honora Sneyd, who was the subject of many of Seward's sonnets and poems. When Sneyd married despite Seward's protest...
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    visitors travelling between Dublin and London, including writers such as Anna Seward, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir...
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    published as The Botanic Garden. Among other writers he influenced were Anna Seward and Maria Jacson. Darwin's most important scientific work, Zoonomia (1794–1796)...
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    celebrities, including Lord Sandwich, Dr Samuel Johnson, Frances Burney and Anna Seward, among others.Richard Holmes remarks that Omai's idiosyncratic behaviour...
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  • first wife, Ida Tiffany; she died two years later. Later he married Anna Seward Pruitt and they opened a school for boys that subsequently merged with...
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    Lichfield poets Sir Brooke Boothby, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward (attributed only by their initials). Seward tried to persuade Mundy to publish the poem publicly...
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  • missionary to India in the 19th century, member of the Zenana Missions Anna Seward Pruitt – part of the "missionary generation" in America, Southern Baptist...
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    Johnson, Erasmus Darwin and his own daughter Anna Seward, amongst others. Thomas Seward was the son of John Seward of Badsey, Worcestershire. He married Elizabeth...
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    191. George, Sam (30 January 2014). "Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward: Botanical Poetry and Female Education". Science & Education. 23 (3):...
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    James Keir and Thomas Day. Other notable figures included the author Anna Seward, the painter Joseph Wright of Derby, the American colonist, botanist...
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  • been briefly engaged to André ten years earlier under the auspices of Anna Seward, who had done much to romanticize the affair in her Monody on Major André...
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    ). Wiley Blackwell 2014 George, S. Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward: Botanical Poetry and Female Education Mar 2014 In : Science and Education...
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    work with schoolmaster Charles Burney, managing his schools. In 1804, Anna Seward published a book about Sidney's upbringing. Edgeworth followed up with...
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  • a surname of English origin. Notable people with that name include: Anna Seward Pruitt (1862–1948), American missionary to China; mother of Ida Pruitt...
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    Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward. After this education project, Day undertook a second: he tried to train a wife. According to Anna Seward (who nevertheless...
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    translation of the Iliad. Horace appealed also to female poets, such as Anna Seward (Original sonnets on various subjects, and odes paraphrased from Horace...
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    Hawaiian cosmogonic genealogy first published in 1889 Telemachus by Anna Seward (epic re-telling of François Fénelon's Les Aventures de Télémaque) Henriade...
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    lived in or visited the Peak include Samuel Johnson, William Congreve, Anna Seward, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lord Byron, Thomas Moore, Richard Furness, D...
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