Letters of Anna Seward: written between the years 1784 and 1807

Seward, Anna

Published by printed by George Ramsay & Company, for Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, William Miller, and John Murray, London, Edinburgh, 1811

About this Item

First edition, 6 volumes, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 399, [1]; viii, 399, [1]; viii, 397, [1]; vii, [1], 397, [1]; vii, [1], 432; vii, [1], 490, xiv (index); uncut and largely unopened; engraved frontispieces in the first three volumes, folding facsimile; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; tops of spines lightly chipped or cracked, a couple of labels with small chips (affecting only 1 letter, pages vi-vii in volume III crudely opened at the top (no loss); all else very good and sound. The portrait of Anna in volume I was engraved by A. Carden from the original picture painted in 1762 by Kettle in the possession Thomas White Esqr. Anna Seward (1742-1809) was both a poet and a novelist, as well as a literary critic. She "fostered a close-knit network of friends and correspondents from across many areas of knowledge and culture, including Samuel Johnson, Erasmus Darwin, George Romney, Helen Maria Williams, the Ladies of Llangollen (Sarah Ponsonby and Eleanor Butler), Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, as well as such members of the blooming Romantic movement as Robert Southey and Walter Scott . In her provincial salon she cultivated friendships, and in her vast epistolary record she wove a network of writers, scientists, and artists" (Brittanica).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Letters of Anna Seward: written between the years 1784 and 1807
• Publisher: printed by George Ramsay & Company, for Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, William Miller, and John Murray, London, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 1811
• Edition: First Edition.
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  • English Literature