Anna Seward (1742-1809)

"The Swan of Lichfield," Anna Seward was the daughter of a canon of Lichfield Cathedral. She was born in Eyam, Derbyshire and moved with her family to Lichfield in 1754; she was the friend or acquaintance of Erasmus Darwin, William Hayley, Francis Mundy, Thomas Day, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Hester Thrale Piozzi, and other notables. In her lifetime, Seward's effusive and sentimental poetry did as much to advance the cause of women's writing as afterwards it did damage. Her father, Thomas Seward, published in Dodsley's Collection.

TEXT RECORDS:

1765 ca.Evander to Emillia.
1768 ca.Monody on Mrs. Richard Vyse.
1770 ca.Ode to Content.
1772To Time Past. Written Dec. 1772.
1781Ode to Ignorance; in imitation of Spencer. ["Knowledge, a Poem."]
1782Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller.
1785Ode to Melpomene.
1785Verses written by Miss Anna Seward in the Blank Leaves of her own Poems, presented by her to William Newton.
1786Ode to Salust. Book II. Ode II.
1786To Valgius. From Horace Book II. Ode II.
1787Ode on General Eliott's Return from Gibraltar.
1787To Licinius Murena. From Horace, Book II. Ode X.
1792[To Henry Francis Cary, on early Poets.]
1796Llangollan Vale.
1796Pastoral Ballad.
1802Chatterton's Poem Charity, modernized from its obsolete English.
1802Complaint of an Arabian Lover. Ode.
1802[To Henry John Todd, 11 June, 1802.]
1805To Miss Catherine Mallet.
1805[Note on Akenside as an imitator of Spenser.]

PUBLICATIONS:

Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780.
Monody on Major Andre. 1781.
Poem to the memory of Lady Miller. 1782.
Louisa: a poetical novel in four epistles. 1784.
Ode on General Elliott's return from Gibraltar. 1787.
Variety: a collection of essays. 1788.
Llangollen vale, with other poems. 1796.
Original sonnets. 1799.
Memoirs of the life of Dr. Darwin. 1804.
Memoirs of Abelard and Eloisa. 1805.
Blindness, a poem. 1806.
Monumental inscriptions in Ashbourn church, Derbyshire. 1806.
Poetical works, ed. Walter Scott. 3 vols, 1810.
Letters ... 1784-1807, ed. Archibald Constable. 6 vols, 1811.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

privately educated

poet
translator
woman writer

Gentleman's Magazine
General Evening Post
Poetical Register
The Morning Chronicle

Brooke Boothby
James Boswell
Frances Brooke
Rev. George Butt
Rev. Henry Francis Cary
William Cowper
Dr. Erasmus Darwin
Thomas Day
Dr. Hugh Downman
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Rev. George Gregory
William Grove
George Hardinge
Dr. Henry Harington
William Hayley
Margaret Holford
Edward Jerningham
Samuel Johnson
Lady Miller
Francis Noel Clarke Mundy
John Nichols
Thomas Park
Hester Thrale Piozzi
Rev. Richard Polwhele
Rev. Robert Potter
Samuel Jackson Pratt
Sir Walter Scott
Rev. Thomas Seward
William Seward
Robert Southey
Rev. William Bagshaw Stevens
Rev. Henry John Todd
Melesina Chenevix Trench
Dr. Nathaniel Tucker
Helen Maria Williams

REFERENCE:

DNB; NCBEL.

"Anecdotes of the Author" in European Magazine 1 (April 1782) 288-90; "Miss Seward" Bristol and Bath Magazine 2 (1783) 347-51; Hyper-Criticism on Miss Seward's Louisa, including Observations on the Nature and Privileges of Poetic Language (1785); Catalogue of five hundred Celebrated Authors (1788); "Strictures, by Miss Seward" Gentleman's Magazine 59 (April-August 1789); Henry White, "Llangollen Vale Defended" Gentleman's Magazine 66 (July 1796) 556-59; "Sketch of Miss Seward" Monthly Mirror 3 (January-February 1797) 9-14, 73-77 [portrait]; David Rivers, Literary Memoirs of Living Authors (1798); "Anna Seward" Weekly Magazine [Philadelphia] 4 (18 May 1799) 169-70 [from Rivers]; "Miss Seward" Lady's Monthly Museum 2 (March 1799) 169-76; John Nichols, "Seward's Sonnets and Odes from Horace" Gentleman's Magazine 69 (1799) ii 1065-66; "Miss Seward" Ladies' Monthly Museum 2 (March 1799) 169-76 [portrait]; Poetical Register for 1801 (1802), 1802 (1803), 1803 (1804), 1804 (1805), 1805 (1807), 1806-07 (1811), 1808-09 (1812); "Biographical Sketches: Miss Anna Seward" Flowers of Literature for 1803 (1804) 30-35 [portrait]; Peter L. Courtier, in Lyre of Love (1806); obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 79 (April 1809) 378-79; obituary in Universal Magazine NS 11 (April 1809) 377-78; obituary in Monthly Magazine 27 (May-June 1809) 410, 515-16; obituary in Censura Literaria 10 (1809) 408-09; "Miss Seward" Lady's Monthly Museum NS 6 (June 1809) 281-82 [portrait]; obituary in Literary Panorama 6 (September 1809) 1241-43; obituary in Select Reviews [Philadelphia] 2 (August 1809) 136-38; Annual Register for 1809 (1809) 606; "Sketch of the Life of Miss Anna Seward" Mirror of Taste [Philadelphia] 2 (October 1810) 177-79; memoir by Walter Scott in Poems (1810); Gentleman's Magazine 81 (1811) ii 154, 241; Alexander Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17); John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes (1812-15); "Miss Anna Seward" British Lady's Magazine 3 (June 1818) 409-15; Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58); "Memoir of Miss Anna Seward" New British Lady's Magazine 2 (April 1819) 137-40 [portrait]; "Miss Seward" Ladies' Monthly Museum S3 13 (March 1821) 121-23 [portrait]; "Miss Seward" Ladies Monthly Museum NS 20 (1824) 96; Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); letters in Richard Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections (1826); Alexander Dyce, Specimens of British Poetesses (1827); "Major Andre and Miss Seward" The Souvenir [Philadelphia] 1 (19 March, 30 April 1828) 298-99, 379; The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most Eminent Persons (1832-34); Robert Chambers, Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844); Anne Katherine Elwood, Memoirs of Literary Ladies of England (1843); Frederic Rowton, Female Poets of Great Britain (1853); Sarah Josepha Hale, Woman's Record (1855); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Thomas Constable, Archibald Constable and his Literary Correspondents (1873); Margaret Oliphant, in Literary History of England (1882); Eric S. Robertson, in English Poetesses, a Series of Critical Biographies (1883); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05); E. V. Lucas, A Swan and her Friends (1907); Florence MacCunn, Sir Walter Scott's Friends (1909) 275-89; Margaret Ashmun, The Singing Swan: an Account of Anna Seward and her Acquaintance with Dr. Johnson, Boswell, and others of their Time (1931); Hesketh Pearson, ed. The Swan of Lichfield (1936); Muriel Kent, "A Lichfield Group" Cornhill Magazine 158 (1938) 347-58; Samuel Holt Monk, "Anna Seward and the Romantic Poets" in E. L. Griggs, ed. Wordsworth and Coleridge: Studies in Honor of G. L. Harper (1939); James L. Clifford, "The Authenticity of Anna Seward's Published Correspondence" Modern Philology 39 (1941) 113-22; Alfred Owen Aldridge, "Akenside, Anna Seward, and Colour" Notes and Queries 193 (1948) 562-63; R. M. Myers, Seward: An Eighteenth-Century Handelian (1947); Butt, OHEL (1979); Todd, Dictionary of ... Women Writers 1660-1800 (1987); Gretchen M. Foster, Pope versus Dryden: A Controversy in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1789-91 (1989); Lonsdale, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets (1989); Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography (1993); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995); Feldman, British Women Poets (1997).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Anna Seward:

1.	1766 Flora, "Queries, proposed to the amiable Miss S—w—d, of L—" St. James Chronicle (4 December 1766).
2.	1766 P. Adey, "To Miss S—w—d" London Chronicle (13 February 1766) 151.
3.	1781 Anonymous, "To Miss Seward, on reading her excellent Monody on the Death of Major Andre" Bath Chronicle (29 March 1781).
4.	1781 Samuel Johnson of Shrewsbury, "Verses addressed to Miss Seward, upon her Monody on Major Andre" Morning Herald and Daily Advertiser (13 April 1781).
5.	1781 William Hayley, "To Miss Seward" Whitehall Evening Post (16 June 1781).
6.	1782 Anonymous, "Anecdotes of the Author" European Magazine 1 (April 1782) 288.
7.	1782 William Bagshaw Stevens, "To Miss Seward with the Present of his published Poems" 1782; Poetical Register for 1805 (1807) 77.
8.	1782 Anonymous, "To Miss Seward" Westminster Magazine 10 (September 1782) 494.
9.	1782 Anonymous, "An Elegy to the Memory of Lady Miller, inscribed to Miss Seward" Weekly Miscellany [Sherborne] 17 (11 March 1782) 575-76.
10.	1783 Anonymous, "Lines on Litchfield" General Evening Post (7 October 1783).
11.	1783 Helen Maria Williams, in An Ode on the Peace (1783) 7.
12.	1783 Mary Scott, "Verses addressed to Miss Seward, on the Publication of her Monody on Major Andre" Gentleman's Magazine 53 (June 1783) 519.
13.	1783 G. I. L., "Sonnet. To Miss Seward" Gentleman's Magazine 53 (October 1783) 870.
14.	1783 M. O. S., "Lines transcribed from an Inn Window in Litchfield" General Evening Post (7 October 1783).
15.	1784 William Hayley, "On Miss Seward's Louisa. Impromptu" Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser (5 October 1784).
16.	1785 Thomas Sedgwick Whalley, "Verses addressed to Miss Seward on reading an ill-natured Criticism on her Louisa" Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser (3 February 1785).
17.	1785 D. C., "On Hayley's Observation of Anna Seward, in his Essay on Epic Poetry" Town and Country Magazine 17 (August 1785) 437-38.
18.	1785 Robert Greville to Richard Polwhele, 29 August 1785; Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections (1826) 1:185.
19.	1786 William Hayley, "Lines on an embroidered Letter-Case" Bath Chronicle (5 October 1786).
20.	1786 S. A., "Sonnet, addressed to Miss Seward" European Magazine 9 (June 1786) 454.
21.	1786 William Bagshaw Stevens, "Sonnet" Gentleman's Magazine (May 1786) 427.
22.	1786 M. C. S., "Sonnet" Universal Magazine 78 (June 1786) 325.
23.	1787 Richard Porson, "Dialogue between Miss Seward and Mr. Hayley" General Evening Post (3 September 1787).
24.	1787 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, "Verses written after reading Miss Seward's Ode to Lord Heathfield, and hearing that he had paid her a Visit" Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser (7 December 1787).
25.	1787 Cyane, "The Measure of the first Verse of Miss Seward's Ode (inserted in Tuesday's Paper) imitated" Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser (17 January 1787).
26.	1788 Joseph Weston, "Sonnet: inscribed, in Memory of the Attic Evenings passed at the Palace in Lichfield" Gentleman's Magazine 58 (November 1788) 1008.
27.	1788 Edward Pye-Waters, "To Miss Seward" Gentleman's Magazine 58 (April 1788) 347.
28.	1788 Thomas Lister, "Sonnet. To Miss Seward" Gentleman's Magazine 58 (May 1788) 446.
29.	1788 Richard Polwhele, "To Anna Seward" 1788; Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections (1826) 2:647-48.
30.	1789 Anonymous, "To Miss Seward, on her Defence of Pope's Poetical Equality with Dryden" Gentleman's Magazine 59 (November 1789) 1032.
31.	1789 William Newton, the Peak Minstrel, "Sonnet to Miss Seward" Gentleman's Magazine 59 (January 1789) 71.
32.	1789 John Williams, "The Delphic Oracle. By Anthony Pasquin, Esq." The Star and Evening Advertiser (6 January 1789).
33.	1790 ca. George Hardinge, "To Miss Seward" 1790 ca.; Hardinge, Miscellaneous Works (1818) 2:15.
34.	1790 Thomas Trotter, "To Miss Seward, on reading her Poem on the Death of Major Andre. Written in 1782" European Magazine 17 (April 1790) 321.
35.	1790 William, "Sonnet, inscribed to Miss Seward" Hibernian Magazine (February 1790) 184.
36.	1790 Susanna Pearson, "Sonnet to Miss Seward, after reading her Elegy on Captain Cook" Literary Magazine and British Review 4 (January 1790) 59.
37.	1790 Anonymous, "To Miss Seward, on her Defence of Pope's Poetical Equality with Dryden" Literary Magazine and British Review 4 (March 1790) 219.
38.	1790 Anonymous, "Mr. Hayley to Miss Seward" The Argus (12 March 1790).
39.	1791 Jane West, "On Miss Seward" Miscellaneous Poems (1791) 98-99.
40.	1791 J. N., "Sonnet to Miss Seward" Gentleman's Magazine 61 (December 1791) 1140.
41.	1792 John Bennet, in "Letters to a young Lady" [Philadelphia] American Museum 11 (January 1792) 10.
42.	1793 George Butt, in "To Miss Seward" Poems (1793) 1:210-11.
43.	1795 Romeo, "Dramatic Fragments. Miss Seward" Tomahawk! or Censor General (2 December 1795).
44.	1796 William Bagshaw Stevens, "Sonnet, on Miss Seward's Poem, Llangollen Vale" Gentleman's Magazine 66 (May 1796) 421.
45.	1796 Robert Farren Cheetham, "To Miss Seward, on her exquisite Poem, intituled Llangollen Vale" Gentleman's Magazine 66 (September 1795) 774-75
46.	1796 Henry Francis Cary, "Sonnet" Seward, Llangollen Vale (1796) sig. A2.
47.	1797 Thomas Park, "To Miss Seward" Park, Sonnets, and other small Poems (1797) Sig. A.
48.	1797 David Samwell, "To Miss Seward, on her Runic Poem, Herva at the Tomb of Argantyr" 1797; Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1805 (1807) 224 &n.
49.	1798 Edward Gardner, in "Miss Seward, Dr. Darwin, Gray, and Collins" Miscellanies, in Prose and Verse (1798) 1:157-61.
50.	1799 Robert Fellows, "On Miss Seward's Collection of Sonnets" The Sun (27 July 1799).
51.	1799 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, "On Miss Seward's Sonnets, published in 1799" European Magazine 36 (July 1799) 47.
52.	1799 W. Woolston, "To Miss Seward" Gentleman's Magazine 69 (November 1799) 975.
53.	1799 Christopher Smyth, "Sonnet to Miss Seward" 1799; Anna Seward, Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 5:266-67n.
54.	1800 ca. Erasmus Darwin, 1800 ca.; E. V. Lucas, A Swan and Her Friends (1907) 19.
55.	1801 Alexander Thomson, in The British Parnassus, at the Close of the Eighteenth Century (1801) 72-73.
56.	1802 Henry Kirke White, "Written on a Blank Leaf at the End of a Volume of Poems by Miss Seward" Monthly Mirror 14 (October 1802) 199.
57.	1802 Margaret Holford, in "Ode to Time" 1802; Poems (1811) 28-30.
58.	1802 Robert Farren Cheetham, "Sonnet to Miss Seward" Gentleman's Magazine 72 (March 1802) 252.
59.	1804 W. Fitzthomas, "Lines presented to Anna Seward, upon her saying that she had written her last Verse" Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1804 (1806) 50.
60.	1805 Capel Lofft, "To Miss Seward, on transferring her Sonnets into this Collection" 1805; Laura, ed. Capel Lofft (1814) No. CCLI.
61.	1807 John Murray to Archibald Constable, 2 June 1807; Archibald Constable and his Literary Correspondents (1873) 1:375-76.
62.	1808 W. M. T., "To Anna Seward, on reading her Sonnets, Louisa, &c." The Cabinet 3 (March 1808) 205-06.
63.	1809 H. Burrington to Richard Polwhele, 1 June 1809; Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections (1826) 2:629.
64.	1811 Thomas Percy to Jane West, 5 January 1811; Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 8:428-29.
65.	1811 Robert Anderson to Thomas Percy, 22 June 1811; Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 7:215-16.
66.	1811 Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 11 August, 1811; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:121.
67.	1811 Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Walter Scott, 22 October 1811; Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharp (1888) 1:442-43.
68.	1811 Walter Savage Landor to Robert Southey, 1811; Forster, Landor, a Biography (1869) 47-48.
69.	1811 Jane West to Thomas Percy, 22 August 1811; Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-1858) 8:432.
70.	1811 Richard Polwhele to J. T., 20 December 1811; Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections (1826) 2:646-47.
71.	1811 Walter Scott to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, 27 October 1811; Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharp (1888) 1:476.
72.	1811 Anonymous, "Miss Seward" Public Ledger (20 September 1811).
73.	1812 Hannah More, to Lady Sparrow, February 1812; Memoirs of Hannah More (1835) 2:190.
74.	1812 ca. George Hardinge, 1812 ca.; Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 1:488-89.
75.	1812 Charles Caleb Colton, in Hypocrisy, a Satire (1812) 8-9 &n.
76.	1814 Melesina Chenevix Trench to Charles Manner St. George Esq., 3 January 1814; Remains of Mrs. Richard Trench (1862) 290.
77.	1821 Lord Byron, Detached Thoughts (1821); Letters and Journals, ed. Rowland E. Prothero (1898-1901) 5:440.
78.	1827 Alexander Dyce, in Specimens of British Poetesses, selected and chronologically arranged (1827)) 285-86.
79.	1828 Leigh Hunt, in Review of Dyce, Specimens of British Poetesses; The Companion (2 July 1828) 381-82.
80.	1830 William Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 10 May 1830; Letters of the Wordsworth Family, ed. Knight (1907) 2:428.
81.	1833 Robert Southey to Mrs. Bray, 21 March 1833; Selections from the Letters, ed. Warter (1856) 4:335-36.
82.	1834 Samuel Egerton Brydges, in Autobiography (1834) 1:57-58.
83.	1851 David Macbeth Moir, in Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-Century (1851; 1852) 12.
84.	1855 Sarah Josepha Hale, Woman's Record; or, Sketches of all Distinguished Women (1852; 1855) 503.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Anna Seward:

1.	1782 Anonymous, "Anecdotes of the Author" European Magazine 1 (April 1782) 288-90.
2.	1788 Anonymous, in Catalogue of five hundred Celebrated Authors (1788).
3.	1798 David Rivers, in Literary Memoirs of Living Authors (1798) 1:244-45.
4.	1806 Peter L. Courtier, in Lyre of Love (1806) 2:123.
5.	1809 Samuel Egerton Brydges, Obituary in Censura Literaria 10 (1809) 408-09.
6.	1809 Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 79 (April 1809) 378-79.
7.	1810 Walter Scott, Biographical Preface, in Poetical Works of Anna Seward (1810) 1:iii-xxxix.
8.	1812 Alexander Chalmers, in General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17) 27:355-58.
9.	1834 G. G. Cunningham, in Memoirs of Illustrious Englishmen (1834-37) 8:156-60.
10.	1843 Anne Katherine Elwood, in Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England (1843) 1:241-58.
11.	1844 Robert Chambers, in Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844; 1850) 2:278.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1764 Joseph Addison: Anna Seward, January 1764; Poetical Works (1810) 1:lxxxiii-iv.
2.	1782 Christopher Anstey: Anna Seward, in Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller (1782) 12.
3.	1782 Rev. George Butt: Anna Seward, in Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller (1782) 9 &n.
4.	1782 Rev. Richard Graves: Anna Seward, in Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller (1782) 8 &n.
5.	1782 Dr. Henry Harington: Anna Seward, in Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller (1782) 5.
6.	1782 William Hayley: Anna Seward, in Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller (1782) 12.
7.	1782 Edward Jerningham: Anna Seward, in Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller (1782) 10 &n.
8.	1782 Rev. Robert Potter: Anna Seward, in Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller (1782); Poetical Works (1810) 2:158.
9.	1782 Samuel Jackson Pratt: Anna Seward, in Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller (1782) 12 &n.
10.	1783 Dr. Erasmus Darwin: Anna Seward, "Verses written in Dr. Darwin's Botanical Garden near Litchfield" Gentleman's Magazine 53 (May 1783) 428.
11.	1783 Rev. William Bagshaw Stevens: Anna Seward, "To William Bagshaw Stevens, on his Poem Retirement" 1783; Poetical Register for 1805 (1807) 78-80.
12.	1784 Samuel Johnson: Anna Seward, "The late Dr. Johnson" General Evening Post (28 December 1784).
13.	1784 Helen Maria Williams: Anna Seward, "Sonnet to Miss Williams, on her Epic Poem, Peru" Morning Post and Daily Advertiser (30 September 1784).
14.	1785 Rev. Henry Boyd: Anna Seward to Helen Williams, 25 August 1785; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:77.
15.	1785 Frances Brooke: Anna Seward to Frances Brooke, 21 April 1785; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:65-66.
16.	1785 Rev. Peter Cunningham: Anna Seward, in "The Minstrel of Woodlow" Gentleman's Magazine 55 (March 1785) 169-70.
17.	1785 Anne Hunter: Anna Seward to Mary Knowles, 27 March 1785; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:46-47.
18.	1785 Rev. Richard Polwhele: Anna Seward to Richard Polwhele, 19 July 1785; Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections (1826) 1:168-69.
19.	1785 John Sargent: Anna Seward to Court Dewes, 30 March 1785; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:54-58.
20.	1785 John Sargent: Anna Seward, "On Mr. Sargent's Dramatic Poem, The Mine" Universal Magazine 76 (May 1785) 270.
21.	1785 Rev. Thomas Warton: Anna Seward to Court Dewes, 30 March 1785; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:50-54.
22.	1785 William Whitehead: Anna Seward to Court Dewes, 27 May 1785; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:69.
23.	1786 William Cowper: Anna Seward to T. S. Whalley, 1 February 1786; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:120-21.
24.	1786 Dr. Erasmus Darwin: Anna Seward to George Hardinge, 10 December 1786; Anna Seward to George Hardinge, 23 October 1786; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:215-16.
25.	1786 Rev. Sneyd Davies: Anna Seward to George Hardinge, 23 October 1786; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:194-95.
26.	1786 George Hardinge: Anna Seward to George Hardinge, 23 September 1786; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:171-73.
27.	1786 William Hayley: Anna Seward, "Ode to William Hayley, Esq. imitated from Horace, B. VII. Od. IV." Gentleman's Magazine (May 1786) 426.
28.	1786 Samuel Jackson Pratt: Anna Seward to George Hardinge, 15 November 1786; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:211.
29.	1786 Clara Reeve: Anna Seward to Miss Scott, 29 March 1786; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:135-36.
30.	1786 Charlotte Smith: Anna Seward to Miss Weston, 20 July 1786; in Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:162-63.
31.	1786 Ann Yearsley: Anna Seward to T. S. Whalley, 1 February 1786; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:121-22.
32.	1787 Jane Bowdler: Anna Seward to Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, 10 October 1787; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:341.
33.	1787 Robert Burns: Anna Seward to William Newton, the Peak Minstrel, 26 September 1787; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:326.
34.	1787 Rev. George Gregory: Anna Seward to George Gregory, 5 December 1787; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:375-78.
35.	1787 Rev. Samuel Hoole: Anna Seward to Helen Maria Williams, 25 December 1787; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:396-97.
36.	1787 Bp. Robert Lowth: Anna Seward to George Gregory, 13 November 1787; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:354-56.
37.	1787 Samuel Richardson: Anna Seward to William Newton, the Peak Minstrel, 10 May 1787; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:293.
38.	1787 Helen Maria Williams: Anna Seward to Helen Maria Williams, 25 December 1787; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 1:390-99.
39.	1788 Rev. Henry Francis Cary: Anna Seward to William Hayley, 17 April 1788; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 2:96-98.
40.	1788 Rev. Henry Francis Cary: Anna Seward to Henry Francis Cary, 19 July 1788; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 2:148-50.
41.	1788 Bertie Greatheed: Anna Seward to Dr. Warner, 3 June 1788; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 2:128.
42.	1788 Robert Merry: Anna Seward to Hester Thrale Piozzi, 13 March 1788; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 2:53-56.
43.	1789 Sir John Denham: Anna Seward to Court Dewes, 20 July 1789; in Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 2:291-92.
44.	1789 Edward Jerningham: Anna Seward to Mrs. Cotton, 15 June 1789; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 2:283-84.
45.	1789 John Sargent: Anna Seward to T. S. Whalley, 10 April 1789; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 2:259.
46.	1790 Henry Headley: Anna Seward to Henry Francis Cary, 21 January 1790; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 2:356-58.
47.	1790 Samuel Johnson: Anna Seward to Helen Maria Williams, 12 December 1790; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 3:45.
48.	1790 Robert Merry: Anna Seward to Hester Thrale Piozzi, 20 February 1790; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 2:374-80.
49.	1791 Edmund Burke: Anna Seward to Miss Taylor, 10 January 1791; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 3:52.
50.	1791 Samuel Johnson: Anna Seward to Mrs. Mompessan, 14 June 1791; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 3:71-72.
51.	1792 Dr. Erasmus Darwin: Anna Seward to Mrs. Jackson, 3 August 1792; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 3:152-57.
52.	1792 Dr. Hugh Downman: Anna Seward to Hugh Downman, 15 March 1792; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 3:120-22.
53.	1792 Rev. George Gregory: Anna Seward to George Gregory, 25 March 1792; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 3:124-30.
54.	1792 Rev. Richard Polwhele: Anna Seward to Richard Polwhele, 25 May 1792; Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections (1826) 1:293-96.
55.	1792 William Shenstone: Anna Seward to Richard Polwhele, 25 May 1792; in Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 3:138-39.
56.	1792 Jane West: Anna Seward to Christopher Symth, 2 April 1792; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 3:131.
57.	1793 Rev. George Richards: Anna Seward to Henry Francis Cary, 9 March 1793; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 3:213-14.
58.	1793 Helen Maria Williams: Anna Seward to Helen Maria Williams, 17 January 1793; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 3:202-09.
59.	1795 William Browne of Tavistock: Anna Seward to J. White, 27 November 1795; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 4:123-24.
60.	1795 William Seward: Anna Seward to William Seward, 17 May 1795; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 4:53-58.
61.	1795 Mary Tighe: Anna Seward to Henry White, 7 September 1795; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 4:107-08.
62.	1796 William Godwin: Anna Seward to Mrs. M. Powys, 1 June 1796; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 4:211.
63.	1796 Edward Jerningham: Anna Seward to Edward Jerningham, 5 March 1796; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 4:181-84.
64.	1796 Samuel Johnson: Anna Seward, "Epitaph on Samuel Johnson" General Evening Post (28 January 1796).
65.	1796 Samuel Johnson: Anna Seward, "Epitaph on Dr. Samuel Johnson" St. James's Chronicle (26 January 1796).
66.	1796 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy: Anna Seward to Lady Eleanor Butler, 28 February 1796; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 4:167-70.
67.	1796 Robert Southey: Anna Seward to Miss Posonby, 29 December 1796; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 4:293-99.
68.	1796 Rev. William Bagshaw Stevens: Anna Seward to William Bagshaw Stevens, 27 April 1796; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 4:198-202.
69.	1797 Rev. James Hurdis: Anna Seward to Mrs. Gell, 13 February 1797; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 4:311-12.
70.	1797 Rev. William Mason: Anna Seward to Mrs. Stokes, 15 June 1797; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 4:363-66.
71.	1797 Robert Southey: Anna Seward, "Written after reading Southey's Joan of Arc" Morning Chronicle (5 August 1797).
72.	1797 Michael Wodhull: Anna Seward to Mrs. Childers, 16 August 1797; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 4:381.
73.	1798 Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Anna Seward to Henry Francis Cary, 4 March 1798; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 5:54-62.
74.	1798 Charles Lloyd: Anna Seward to Henry Francis Cary, 4 March 1798; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 5:57.
75.	1798 Rev. Richard Polwhele: Anna Seward, "To the Author" Polwhele, Influence of Local Attachment (1798) iv.
76.	1798 William Shenstone: Anna Seward to Mrs. Jackson, 13 February 1798; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 5:49-50.
77.	1798 Rev. Henry John Todd: Anna Seward to Henry John Todd, 19 October 1798; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 5:157-60.
78.	1799 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy: Anna Seward to Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, 6 May 1799; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 5:221-25.
79.	1799 Alexander Pope: Anna Seward, "On Reading a Description of Pope's Gardens at Twickenham" Morning Chronicle (25 April 1799).
80.	1800 William Cowper: Anna Seward to Thomas Park, 25 September 1800; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 5:318-26.
81.	1800 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy: Anna Seward, "Rural Coronation. Inscribed to Mr. Mundy, on reading his Poem on Needwood Forest" European Magazine 37 (March 1800) 226.
82.	1800 ca. Rev. William Bagshaw Stevens: Anna Seward, "Epitaph, Inscribed on the Monument of the Rev. William Bagshaw Stevens, in Repton Church, Derbyshire" Poetical Register and Repository for Fugitive Poetry for 1805 (1807) 54.
83.	1800 Joshua Sylvester: Anna Seward to Charles Simpson, 30 August 1800; in Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 5:312-13.
84.	1801 Sir James Bland Burges: Anna Seward to Edward Jerningham, 23 February 1801; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 5:357-58.
85.	1801 Edward Jerningham: Anna Seward to Edward Jerningham, 23 February 1801; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 5:357-64.
86.	1802 Richard Alfred Davenport: Anna Seward to Thomas Park, 27 September 1802; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 6:42-44.
87.	1802 Thomas Dermody: Anna Seward to Thomas Park, 27 September 1802; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 6:45.
88.	1802 Walter Savage Landor: Anna Seward to Henry John Todd, 11 June 1802; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 6:29.
89.	1802 Allan Ramsay: Anna Seward to Walter Scott, 10 July 1802; in Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 6:35-36.
90.	1802 Richard Savage: Anna Seward to Thomas Park, 27 September 1802; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 6:45.
91.	1802 Rev. Henry John Todd: Anna Seward to Henry John Todd, 11 June 1802; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 6:27-28.
92.	1803 William Cowper: Thomas Park, "On receiving, as a posthumous Memoiral, a pair of green-glass Spectacles, which had belonged to the Author of The Task" Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1803 (1805) 337.
93.	1803 Thomas Gray: Anna Seward, "Written in a very minute Edition of Gray's Poems" Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1803 (1805) 86.
94.	1803 Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe: Anna Seward to Walter Scott, 29 July 1803;Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 6:98.
95.	1805 Dr. Erasmus Darwin: Anna Seward to Richard Polwhele, 18 June 1805; Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections (1826) 2:565-66.
96.	1805 Rev. Robert Greville: Anna Seward to Richard Polwhele, July 1805; Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections (1826) 2:573-74.
97.	1805 Samuel Jackson Pratt: Anna Seward to Richard Polwhele, 18 June, July 1805; Polwhele, Traditions and Recollections (1826) 2:566-73.
98.	1805 ca. Sir Walter Scott: Anna Seward, 1805 ca.; Russell, Book of Authors (1860) 387.
99.	1805 Sir Walter Scott: Anna Seward, "Address to the River Tweed, on Mr. Scott's having chosen his Habitation near its Banks" Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1805 (1807) 171-72.
100.	1805 Horace Walpole: Anna Seward to Miss Posonby, 31 October 1805; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 6:234-35.
101.	1806 Rev. Thomas Blacklock: Anna Seward to Walter Scott, 23 September 1806; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 6:315.
102.	1806 Margaret Holford: Anna Seward to Mrs. Powys, 28 June 1806; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 6:288-89.
103.	1806 Robert Southey: Anna Seward to Robert Southey, 15 August 1806; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 6:358-59.
104.	1807 William Wordsworth: Anne Seward to Walter Scott, 24 August 1807; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 6:366-37.
105.	1808 Robert Southey: Anna Seward, "Verses written in the Blank Leaves of Southey's Madoc" The Examiner (6 November 1808) 717.
106.	1811 Rev. Charles Churchill: Anna Seward to William Hayley, 15 May 1804; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 6:166-67.