Todidae
Todidae (todies; class Aves, order Coraciiformes) A family which comprises the single genus
Todus, of small birds which have green upper-parts, red throats, and pink or yellow flanks. They have long, fairly narrow bills, with red lower
mandibles. They have large heads, short necks, and rounded bodies. Their wings are short and rounded, their tails medium-length, and their legs slender, with long,
syndactylous toes. They inhabit forests and bush, feed on insects and fruit, and nest in holes in banks. There are five species, confined to the W. Indies.
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Two new poems by Anna Seward. (Essays).(Poem)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Add. 61842, pp. 41-42) by Anna Seward (1747-1809) that have never...edition of The Poetical Works of Anna Seward (1810) has served as the basis...Collins, William Hayley, and Anna Seward. Seward's poems are titled...
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William Newton: Anna Seward's "Peak Minstrel".(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...at Tideswell, was the protege of Anna Seward, the Swan of Lichfield, who fashioned...explain this oversight. Although Seward encouraged Newton to write poetry...among them, Helen Maria Williams, Anna Seward, Charlotte Smith, Coleridge...
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 "Birmingham Mail (England)")
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Lottery cash will fund Anna Seward show.(News)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England); 2/13/2009; 367 words
; ...anniversary of the Swan of Lichfield, the 18th century poet Anna Seward, with an exhibition in the spring. Museum curator Alison Wallis said: "Anna Seward was a good friend of Erasmus Darwin, and began to write...
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OBIT - CORBIN, ANNA SEWARD WALLACE
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 6/27/2005; 223 words
; Anna Seward Wallace Corbin, 68, of Martinsville, died Saturday, June 25, 2005. Arrangements will be announced by McKee-Stone Funeral Service.
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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"SEWARD HOUSE IS INCREDIBLE'; DEPARTING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PETER WISBEY SAID HE KNEW LITTLE ABOUT STATESMAN WILLIAM SEWARD BEFORE HE ARRIVED IN AUBURN, BUT QUICKLY BECAME A BIG FAN.(Neighbors)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 10/8/2009; 700+ words
; ...executive director of the Seward House. Wisbey has been commuting...executive director at the Seward House, Auburn. Family: Wife, Sarah; daughters, Anna, 12, Julia, 8 CAPTION...WISBEY,director of the Seward House in Auburn, poses next...
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"The First Fire": Barbauld rewrites the greater romantic lyric. (English poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...critical model to Barbauld's poem? The English poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) has lately been coming...writers of her day. . . . [A] far better poet than Anna Seward, she offers imaginative subjects, often portrayed with...
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Ralph Seward Dies; Lawyer, Arbitrator
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/25/1994; 700+ words
; ...include his wife, Clayton Cranwell Seward of Washington; two sons from his first marriage, Timothy North Seward of Potomac and Paul North Seward of Aiken, S.C.; a stepson...both of Fairfax; his mother, Anna R. Hamby of Annapolis; a brother...
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Nellie Ellen Seward
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 5/21/2009; 641 words
; ...receptionist-bookkeeper at Jaussaud-Seward and Associates, a land surveying...of Winnetka, Illinois; Paul Seward (Amanda) of Tacoma; Lianne...Rob) of Yakima, and Tanya Seward of Spokane Valley. She has...Waldo (Bud) Perry; sisters, Anna Shriner and Mary Henderson and...
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SEWARD THIRD-GRADER A WINNER AT SPELLING BEE.(Neighbors Cayuga)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 4/29/2004; 700+ words
; ...the area was Emma Porter of Seward Elementary School. She won...First place, Emma Porter, Seward Elementary, Auburn; second...Herman Avenue Wednesday, Seward Thursday and Owasco Friday...technology. Port Byron student Anna Barton, House of Delegates...
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Debbie Seward.(--1997--)(joins Radio Free Europe )(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Nieman Reports; 12/22/2006; 615 words
; Debbie Seward writes: "My family and I have moved from New York City to Prague, where...has finished novel number two, 'The English Lesson,' and our daughter Anna (two at the time of our Nieman Fellowship) is now 12 and a thriving 7th...
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Anna Seward
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Anna Seward , 1742-1809, English poet, called the Swan of Lichfield. A member of the Lichfield literary group, which included Thomas...
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Seward, Anna
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Seward, Anna (1742–1809), poet, essayist, and letter writer, born in Eyam, Derbyshire, known as the ‘Swan of...
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Lichfield
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and a statue of him rests in the market square. Lichfield has a very old grammar school (founded 1497). In the 18th cent., a literary circle that included Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, and Anna Seward was known as the Lichfield group.
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Erasmus Darwin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Lichfield and cultivated a botanical garden. He was a prominent member of the Lichfield literary group, which included Anna Seward and Thomas Day . In a long poem, The Botanic Garden (1789-91), Darwin expounded the botanical system of Linnaeus...
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Thomas Day
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Sandford and Merton (3 vol., 1783-89) contrasts the "natural" education of the virtuous Sandford with the conventional one of the objectionable Merton. In Lichfield he was a member of the literary group centering about Anna Seward .
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