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Married. Anne Ferelith Bowes-Lyon, 20, niece of England's Queen Elizabeth; and Viscount Anson, 25, son & heir of the Earl of Lichfield; in London, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. On hand were Queen Elizabeth, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose...
...SWAN OF LICHFIELD-Edited by Hesketh Pearson - Oxford University Press ($3.50). Selected correspondence of Anna Seward, an 18th Century highbrow journalist whose indiscreet literary anecdotes and witty rhetoric tickled her contemporaries, but "nauseated" the next generation's Victorians, who called her Johnsonian anecdotes an outrage...
...first extended study of the "Swan of Lichfield" sets forth a remarkably interesting and accurate account of the literary life in England under George III. The book contains delightful glimpses of the customs, conventions, and people of that day. We see young John Andre, bashful but enterprising, set off to America where he is later executed as a spy. When the "Swan" writes denunciatory poems to General Washington, the American president sends a special officer in reply to assure her that he had tried to save Andre and had offered him eagerly in exchange for Nathan Hale...
Anna Seward was one of the leading "female authors" of her day. Living in Lichfield, birthplace of the "Great Bear", Doctor Johnson, she was the center of a brilliant set of literary and artistic notables. Like her rival and townsman, Anna Seward is remembered better for her life than for her works. Her poems describing the explorations and exploits of Captain Cook receive less consideration from Miss Ashmun than her meetings with Walter Scott; Dr. Darwin, the great Darwin's grandfather; Romney, who painted her portrait twice; Carey, the translator of Dante; and the poet Southey. Other men of similar...
...House of Commons last week, a bill was introduced to prohibit stag hunting in England. John Alexander Lovat-Fraser, 62-year-old Laborite, representing the Lichfield Division of Staffordshire, a member of the National Council of Maternity and Child Welfare, contended that his bill would end "a practice that subjects the stag to the grossest and most terrible cruelty. . . ." His bill was backed by the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A Conservative M.P. objected to the Lovat-Fraser Bill on the ground that if passed it would set a precedent for bills prohibiting all kinds of hunting...