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Article: William Newton: Anna Seward's "Peak Minstrel".(Critical essay)
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- March 22, 2009
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William Newton (1750-1830), the son of a Peak District carpenter and himself a professional machinery carpenter and later mill-owner at Tideswell, was the protege of Anna Seward, the Swan of Lichfield, who fashioned a role for him as "the Peak Minstrel." In an appreciative biographical article that Seward contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine in 1785, she had recommended Newton, the labouring-class poet, to her readers. In January, 1789, in the Gentleman's Magazine, Newton in turn published "Sonnet to Miss Seward," a tribute celebrating her "melting and pathetic lyre," which publicly cemented their friendship. (1) While Newton enjoyed a local reputation during the ...
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Article: pounds45,000 to rescue pages of history
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... ... conservation of six very fragile matching volumes of letters by Anna Seward, the romantic poet and prolific correspondent of the ... who wish to help us in the future." Pictured with the Anna Seward books is senior conservator Richard Nichols.
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