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Updated: June 16, 2025
One wonders but that wonder remains unsatisfied what "that something" was which he and Anna Swanwick were then "expecting" from Martineau. England possesses, as a rule, a memory of decidedly insular proportions and proclivities.
THE MAID OF ORLEANS is contributed by Miss Anna Swanwick, whose translation of Faust has since become well known. It has been. carefully revised, and is now, for the first time, published complete.
I do not wonder that you so early take refuge in far Scotland. I so mortified my dear friend Anna Swanwick last year by my sudden retreat from the overstrain of her house, that I did not dare to repeat the trial this year; indeed, I should deeply alarm my wife by attempting it, and, alas! dear Anna herself proved unable to sustain herself due, I suppose, to the self-imposed task of her new book.
Anna Swanwick was one of the most remarkable women of her age one of the most intellectual, one of the most thoughtful as regards the social educational movements of her time, which was the early part of the last century.
Anna Swanwick always declared, we are told, that his was a "deeply religious nature," yet throughout the greater part of his life he was unable to take hold of the dogmas of Holy Scriptures. He was always trying to make a "new" religion, compounded of all the best parts of the faiths professed in various parts of the world.
"Noble efforts for a good cause are never thrown away, are never ineffectual, even when the success does not come in the exact form for which its champion was contending. It may hereafter be said: 'Other men sowed we reap the fruit of their labours." I quote now from the letter to Anna Swanwick, in which he refers to this question in 1887:
He urges the need of a "Latin novel" a Latin comedy; one that would set alight the imagination of young scholars. In Miss Bruce's Memoir and Recollections of Anna Swanwick, there is mention of the fact that the latter often mentioned the insight she herself obtained in the intricacies of the Greek language through help given her by Frank Newman.
A visitor to a recent Swanwick Conference of the Student Christian Movement has publicly expressed his regret that some students still seemed to be concerned with the problems of their own spiritual life; and were not prepared to let that look after itself, whilst they started straight off to work for the social realization of the Kingdom of God.
He would occasionally refresh himself for this evening work by a short doze, which, however, he would never admit had exceeded the limits of “winking,” to use his own term. Mr. Frederick Swanwick, who officiated as his secretary, after the appointment of Mr.
There was one who stood without word or cry, close to the door her eyes dilated, her cheek colourless, her whole person, soul and body alike, concentrated in that one impulse to spring forward the first moment the bolt should be drawn. But still the door remained fast shut! A human shambles with blood-reeking floor. MISS SWANWICK, Esch. Agamemnon
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