Letters Written between the Years 1784 and 1807

ISBN-13: 9781108059527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 444 str.

Anna Seward

Opis

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. Full of Seward's characteristic good humour, Volume 5 covers the years 1797 1801. It features her reflections on slavery, the disinclination of the young toward a religious life, and the troubled state of Ireland, alongside frank accounts of the rheumatism that plagued her middle age."