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See also:SWANWICK, See also:ANNA (1813-1899) , See also:English writer and philanthropist, was the youngest daughter of See also:John Swanwick of See also:Liverpool, and was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:June 1813. She was educated partly at See also:home and partly at one of the fashionable boarding-See also:schools of the See also:day, where she received the usual See also:education of accomplishments. Dissatisfied with her own intellectual attainments she went in 1839 to See also:Berlin, where she took lessons in See also:German, See also:Greek and See also:Hebrew. On her return to See also:London she continued these pursuits, aloug with the study of See also:mathematics. In 1843 appeared her first See also:volume of See also:translations, Selections from the Dramas of See also:Goethe and See also:Schiller. In 1847 she published a See also:translation of Schiller's See also:Jungfrau von See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans; this was followed in 185o by See also:Faust, See also:Tasso, Iphigenie and See also:Egmont. In 1878 she published a See also:complete translation of both parts of Faust, which appeared with Retsch's illustrations. It passed through several See also:editions, was included in See also:Bohn's See also:series of translations, and ranks as a See also:standard See also:work. It was at the See also:suggestion of See also:Baron See also:Bunsen that she first tried her See also:hand at translation from the Greek. In 1865 she published a See also:blank See also:verse translation of See also:Aeschylus's Trilogy, and in 1873, a complete edition of Aeschylus, which appeared with See also:Flaxman's illustrations. See also:Miss Swanwick is chiefly known by her translations, but she also published some See also:original work. In 1886 appeared Books, our Best See also:Friends and Deadliest Foes; in 1888, An Utopian See also:Dream and How it may be Realized; in 1892, Poets, the Interpreters of their See also:Age; and in 1894, See also:Evolution and the See also:Religion of the Future. Miss Swanwick was interested in many of the social and philanthropic movements of her day. In 1861 she signed John See also:Stuart See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill's See also:petition to See also:parliament for the See also:political enfranchisement of See also:women. She helped in the higher education See also:movement, took See also:part in the See also:foundation of See also:Queen's and See also:Bedford Colleges, and continued to take a sympathetic See also:interest in the movement which led to the opening of the See also:universities to women. Her work was acknowledged by the university of See also:Aberdeen, which bestowed on her the degree of LL.D. She died in See also:November 1899.
See Memoir, by Miss See also:Bruce (1904).
End of Article: SWANWICK, ANNA (1813-1899)
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