1. Anna Swanwick was an English author and feminist.
18 Facts About Anna Swanwick
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Anna Swanwick was the youngest daughter of John Swanwick and his wife, Hannah Hilditch.
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Anna Swanwick was born in Liverpool on 22 June 1813.
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Anna Swanwick was educated chiefly at home, but, wishing to carry on her education beyond the typical age for girls in this country at that time, she went in 1839 to Berlin, where she studied German and Greek, and gained knowledge of Hebrew.
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Anna Swanwick returned to England in 1843 and began translating some of the German dramatists.
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Miss Anna Swanwick's Faust passed through many editions and was included in Bohn's series of translations from foreign classics.
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Anna Swanwick's translation has passed through many editions and ranks high among English versions.
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Anna Swanwick took a keen interest in many social issues of the day, especially women's education, and in raising the moral and intellectual tone of the working classes.
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Anna Swanwick was a member of the councils both of Queen's College and Bedford College, London, and was for some time president of the latter.
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Anna Swanwick assisted in the founding of Girton College, Cambridge, and Somerville Hall, Oxford, and in extending the King's College lectures to women.
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Anna Swanwick was associated with Anthony John Mundella and Sir Joshua Girling Fitch in carrying out the provisions of the will of Mrs Emily Jane Pfeiffer, who left in 1890 large sums of money for the promotion of the higher education of women.
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Anna Swanwick strongly advocated the study of English literature in the universities, and herself lectured privately on the subject to young working men and women.
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Miss Anna Swanwick's life was thus divided between literary pursuits and active philanthropy.
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Anna Swanwick never sought publicity, but her example and influence had an important and invigorating effect on women's education and on their position in the community.
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Anna Swanwick signed John Stuart Mill's petition to parliament in 1865 for the political enfranchisement of women.
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Miss Anna Swanwick was the centre of a large circle of distinguished friends, who included Crabb Robinson, Tennyson, Browning, Gladstone, James Martineau, and Sir James Paget, and these, with many others, were frequent visitors at her house.
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Anna Swanwick died on 2 Nov 1899 at Tunbridge Wells, and was buried in the Swanwick family plot on the western side of Highgate Cemetery five days later.
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Anna Swanwick's name appears on the Reformers' Memorial in Kensal Green Cemetery in London.