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Letters Written between the Years 1784 and 1807

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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 1 covers the period 1784–7. Showing the first signs of her long-lasting acrimony towards Samuel Johnson, whom she saw as a bully, it includes some of her anecdotes of him, alongside her own equally expert criticism.

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ISBN: 9781108059480
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Author: Anna Seward
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 422 pages
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
Genres: Diaries, letters and journals
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Literary studies: general