Letters Written between the Years 1784 and 1807 Paperback / softback
by Anna Seward
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies series
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The literary career of Anna Seward (1742–1809) had many frustrations.
Erasmus Darwin once printed her poetry under his own name.
Horace Walpole accused her of having 'no imagination'. And despite her evident talents, she was unable to find a patron willing to support a woman.
Yet her letters reveal the breadth of her interests and the strength of her literary criticism.
In addition to writing to newspapers and magazines, she counted many eminent figures among her correspondents, including James Boswell (who begged for a lock of her hair) and the young Walter Scott.
This six-volume selection of her letters, edited by the publisher Archibald Constable (1774–1827), first appeared in 1811.
Volume 4 covers the years 1794–7. Unfailingly pragmatic, Seward begins with a discussion of the French Revolution and the unlikelihood of a similar occurrence in England, and ends with a cheerful account of her efforts to regain her good health.
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- ISBN:9781108059510
