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Poetess Anna Seward, also acquaintance as "the swan of Lichfield ", was born in Eyam (Derbyshire, United Kingdom) in 1747. Her father, Thomas Seward, did to himself canon of the Cathedral of Lichfield (Staffordshire) in 1757 and the family moved there, where Anna would live through the rest of her life. Her mother, Elizabeth Hunter, died and Anna, as elder daughter, stayed with the responsibility of taking care of her father. She was educated in her house, and she learned French, Italian and Latin. At early age she began to write poetry and articles that she was publishing in magazines and distributing between her friends. Anna was an active member of the literary brotherhood of Lichfield, to which also belonged Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin. Other members of this group were her friends Thomas Day and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Anna's poetry was of nature romantic and more conventional than her ideas. In her poems she was recalling events and special places that she had known. The love also was one of her favorite topics, with poems directed especially to her friend Honora Sneyd. Anna was much joined to several women during her life, but in particular to Honora Sneyd, with whom she lived for thirteen years. Anna never married, and felt betrayed when Honora did it with her friend Richard Lovell Edgeworth. She was very critical with the marriage, for example with the guides for women who were advising any marriage for the woman before remaining single. When Honora Sneyd died, seven years later, Anna's grief was terrible. Thirteen years later she kept on writing in her poems the feelings for her friend. The above mentioned poems were not censured since the romantic friendship between women was accepted by normality in that epoch. There is not known if Anna's affection towards Honora was a sample of friendship or lesbian passion. Other women for whom Anna showed her feelings were Penelope Weston, Miss Mompesson, Miss Fern and Elizabeth Cornwallis. Anna's relation with Elizabeth Cornwallis was difficult, since Elizabeth's father was not approving the feminine friendship, and they turned out to be forced to meet and to write each other secretly. At the end of the XVIIIth century Anna became a friend of the "Ladys of Llangollen", Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, to that she dedicated the poem "The vale of Llangollen". During her life Anna was admired and also criticized. She died in 1809. In 1810, Sir Walter Scott published her poetical works in three volumes.
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