Anna Seward - and Classic Lichfield

Anna Seward, by Stapleton Martin
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Title: Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield
Author: Stapleton Martin
Release Date: August 21, 2008 Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8
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Transcribed from the 1909 Deighton and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
Anna Seward
AND
CLASSIC LICHFIELD,
BY
STAPLETON MARTIN, M.A.
AUTHOR OF
“Izaak Walton and his Friends ,” etc. “As long as the names of Garrick, of Johnson, and of Seward shall endure, Lichfield will live renowned.”—Clarke. “Biography, the most interesting perhaps of every species of composition, loses all its interest with me when the shades and lights of the principal characters are not accurately and faithfully detailed.”
Extract from a letter of Sir Walter Scott to Anna Seward . Worcester:
PRINTED BY DEIGHTON AND CO ., HIGH STREET .
1909.
PREFACE.
Literature and music and science have been found this year amazingly prolific in centenary commemorations of their great exemplars, as a leading article in the “Times,” for April, 1909, has lately reminded us. Yet the death in 1809 of Anna Seward, who “for many years held a ...