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Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 Under Suspicious Circumstances: The (Critical)
Disappearance of Anna Seward

2 “Fancy’s Shrine”: Lady Miller’s Batheaston Poetical Assemblies

3 The Profession of Poetry

4 British Patriot

5 Wartime Correspondent: The French Wars
and Late-Century Patriotism

6 Seward and Sensibility: Louisa, a Poetical Novel, in Four Epistles

7 Louisa and the Late Eighteenth-Century Family Romance

8 Milton’s Champion

9 Corresponding Poems

10 The “Lost” Honora

11 Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Digging in The Botanical Garden

12 Anna Seward, Samuel Johnson, and the End
of the Eighteenth Century

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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