Anna Seward
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Anna Seward was an English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield. She benefited from her father's progressive views on female education.
Portrait by Tilly Kettle, 1762
Anna Seward, engraving 1799
Bishop's Palace
1782 portrait of Seward by George Romney
Eyam
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Eyam is an English village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales that lies within the Peak District National Park. There is evidence of early occupation by Ancient Britons on the surrounding moors
Anna Seward
…John, Jane and Elizabeth), who all died in infancy, and two stillbirths. Anna Seward mourned their loss in her poem Eyam (1788). Born in 1742 at Eyam, a mining village in the Peak District of Derbyshire, where her father was Rector, she and her sister Sarah, some 16 months younger, passed nearly all…
Eyam parish church
The Anglo-Saxon cross
The Boundary Stone
The village green and Church Street