Anna Seward Quotes


A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.


Citations

Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807. Archibald Constable and Company, 1811.

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Anna Seward
Anna Seward
  • Born: December 12, 1742
  • Died: March 25, 1809
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Writer, Botanist

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