Anna Seward: A Constructed Life

In her critical biography of Anna Seward (1742-1809), Teresa Barnard examines the poet''s unpublished letters and manuscripts, providing a fresh perspective on Seward''s life and historical milieu that restores and problematizes Seward''s carefully constructed narrative of her life. Of the poet Anna Seward, it may be said with some veracity that hers was an epistolary life. What is known of Sewar...