Anna Seward was an English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield. She benefited from her father's progressive views on female education.

Born in Derbyshire, British Romantic poet and novelist Anna Seward was the daughter of a clergyman and the only one of four children to reach adulthood.

Anna Seward (1742–1809), English poet, literary critic, and intellectual best known for the long poems Elegy on Captain Cook (1780) and Monody on Major ...

Anna Seward - Anna Seward was born in 1747 in Derbyshire, England. Known as the "Swan of Lichfield," she was the author of several works of poetry.

Born in 1747 in Derbyshire, Anna Seward was a poet and writer of some renown, particularly for women in that era.

Anna Seward was an English Romantic poet who earned the title "The Swan of Lichfield" for her acclaimed literary salon in her hometown.

Take a closer look at a portrait of Anna Seward, a poet who saw St. George as one of the best and brightest British gentlemen who fought in America.

(1747–1809). Popular in her day, English writer Anna Seward was valued for her rarity as a woman poet and admired for her outspoken nature.

Born in Derbyshire, British Romantic poet and novelist Anna Seward was the daughter of a clergyman and the only one of four children to reach adulthood.

One of the best-known poets of the 1780s and 1790s. Seward was born in the Derbyshire village of Eyam and lived from the age of ten in Lichfield.