Annie Shepherd Swan
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Annie Shepherd Swan CBE (July 8, 1859 – June 17, 1943) was a Scottish writer, journalist, novelist and short story writer. Although used her maiden name for most of her literary career, Swan also wrote under the pen name
s David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett-Smith. She was a highly popular writer of romantic fiction
for young women during the Victorian era
and published more than 200 novels, serials, short stories and other works of fiction from 1878 to her death in 1943.
Many of her stories appeared in prominent magazines of the period, among these The Woman at Home and The People's Friend
, which she long regarded as the mainstay of her writing career. She was one of the earliest female authors to contribute to women's magazines, especially when they were first becoming popular during the mid-to late 19th century, and later became an influential figure in the industry. Because of her dominance over the Women at Home, editor-in-chief W.R. Nicoll often called it Annie Swan's Magazine. She later became editor of the magazine from 1893 to 1917.
Swan was also very active in politics during her lifetime. A well-known suffragist, she was a member of the Liberal Party
and was its first female candidate when she stood for the Maryhill division
of Glasgow
in the campaign of 1922
. She was also a founding member and one-time vice president of the Scottish National Party
.
, Midlothian
, on July 8, 1859. One of seven children, her family was broken up following her mother's death and her father's subsequent remarriage. She was homeschooled
by a governess
and began writing short stories at the age of 15. Swan was educated at the Ladies' College in Edinburgh, and later began writing children's books and articles for The Woman at Home and various religious magazines. During the next several years, her monthly articles were praised for being "full of sound sense and sympathetic knowledge".
She published her first novel, Ups And Downs (1878), at age 19. Though it was not commercially successful, her second book Aldersyde (1883) proved very popular and ended up becoming a best-seller
. The story, a romance set in a coastal community in the Scottish Borders
, was favourably reviewed by critics. Swan received an autographed letter from Lord Tennyson as well as a letter from then Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
who considered it a "beautiful as a work of art" for its "truly living sketches of Scottish character". Aldersyde served as a model for her later "Kailyard" writings as well as those of regional middle class life and light romance novels. These stories often featured themes of "sisterly and motherly love, the virtues of a good woman, and a happy resolution of romantic problems".
Swan later sold the copyright of Aldersyde for £50. Already having acquired a large audience though her novel, she capitalized on this success by reaching an even wider audience though serial publications
in magazines such as The Woman at Home and The People's Friend
. Though she was long associated with publisher W.R. Nicoll, she later wrote for other publications as well. Among them included The British Weekly and the Glasgow Weekly Mail.
Some however, such as fellow author Margaret Oliphant, criticized these novels as portraying a stereotypical and unrealistic depiction of Scotland. Upon reviewing Carlowrie (1884), Oliphant publicly claimed the young authoress' work "presented an entirely distorted view of Scottish life". Swan responded that her novel's had indeed been influenced by Oliphant's work adding "The story was frankly modelled on the Border stories of Mrs Oliphant, for whom I had a passionate admiration, amounting to worship." She also defended her stories as being based on her own experiences.
In the same year Aldersyde was published, Swan married James Burnett Smith and they settled in Fife
, then moved back to Edinburgh two years later. While living in Fife, she became close friends with Scottish theologin Robert Flint
and his sister. Smith had wanted to become a doctor, but was unable to afford the heavy financial costs, and abandoned his studies to become a schoolteacher. The lived in a schoolhouse near the Star of Markinch from 1883 to 1885; the Scottish poet Duncan Glen
resided in a nearby farm cottage almost a century later. Through Swan's encouragement, he later resumed his studies, partially supported by her income as a writer, and eventually earned his medical degree. In 1892, she and her husband moved to London where she became a leading writer for women's magazines in the earliest years of their popularity. She became an influential figure in the industry and edited The Woman at Home from 1893 to 1917, and ran a penny weekly
called the Annie S. Swan Penny Stories towards the end of the 1890s. While living in Camden Square
, Swan and her husband became close friends with writer Beatrice Harraden
and others; they were later friends and neighbours with Harraden as well as Joseph and Emma Parker while living in Hampstead
years later.
By 1898, Swan had published over 30 books. While these were primarily novels, many of which being serially published, she also wrote poetry and short stories as well as non-fiction books on advice, politics and religion. In 1901, The Juridical Review reported that Swan's books were the most favoured among female inmates in Irish prisons. In 1906, she was profiled in Helen Black's Notable Women Authors of the Day.
She used her maiden name for most of her career but also used the pseudonyms David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett-Smith at various times. Swan was a respected public speaker as well and became involved in social and political causes, such as the Temperance movement
, in Britain during this time. She wrote books and novels on the suffragette movement in Britain
, often under her David Lyall pen name, such as Margaret Holroyd: or, the Pioneers (1910). The novel was a collection of interconnecting short stories that followed a young suffragette, Margaret Holroyd, and dealt with many real-life problems faced by suffragettes such as disapproval from family and friends, fear of public speaking, physical exhaustion and ethical dilemmas in a rebellious and sometimes militant atmosphere.
During the First World War, Swan resigned her editorial position and volunteered to join the British war effort. Working for the Ministry of Food, she visited soldiers' camps in Britain and abroad. Swan visited the United States in January 1918 and again after the Armistice
at the end of the year. She met with Herbert Hoover
, then head of the U.S. Food Administration, and lectured on the necessity for conserving food on the American homefront
as well as informing the American public of Britain's wartime contributions. Two successful plays, Getting Together by John Hay Beith
and The Better 'Ole by Bruce Bairnsfather
, were written for the occasion. While in the United States, she also took the opportunity to write a book on the cultural differences between women in Britain and the United States titled As Others See Her: An Englishwoman's Impressions of the American Woman in War Time (1919).
Shortly after the passage of voting rights for women in the United Kingdom
, Swan became a member of the Liberal Party
and became its first female candidate when she ran for the Maryhill division
of Glasgow
in the general election of 1922
. Following her defeat, the Women's Freedom League
claimed that Swan and other female candidates would have been elected under the system of proportional representation
as seen in other European countries such as Ireland
, Holland and Germany
.
Starting in 1924, Swan ran another penny weekly The Annie Swan Annual. She also wrote several popular novels during this time including The Last of the Laidlaws (1920), Closed Doors (1926) and The Pendulum (1926). After her husband's death in 1927, Swan returned to Scotland settling in Gullane
, East Lothian
. In 1930, she received the CBE
in recognition of her contribution to literature. She also remained involved in politics becoming a founding member of the Scottish National Party
and served as its vice president. She continued writing throughout her life and, in 1934, wrote her autobiography My Life. Her final published work was an article for Homes and Gardens, "Testament of Age", in March 1943. She died of heart disease three months later at her home in Gullane on June 17, 1943. A collection of her personal correspondence, The Letters of Annie S. Swan (1945), was edited by Mildred Robertson Nicoll and published posthumously two years later.
In the years following her death, there has been little study of her life or work by literary historians. However, articles such as Edmond Gardiner's "Annie S. Swan - Forerunner of Modern Popular Fiction" (1974) and Charlotte Reid's "A Cursory of Inspection to Annie S. Swan" (1990) have pointed out her literary contributions. Several of her novels have been reprinted in the last decade.
Pen name
A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
s David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett-Smith. She was a highly popular writer of romantic fiction
Romance novel
The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...
for young women during the Victorian era
Victorian era
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...
and published more than 200 novels, serials, short stories and other works of fiction from 1878 to her death in 1943.
Many of her stories appeared in prominent magazines of the period, among these The Woman at Home and The People's Friend
The People's Friend
The People's Friend is a British weekly magazine founded in 1869 and currently published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. Its tagline is "The famous story magazine".The magazine is principally aimed at older women and is broadly traditionalist in outlook...
, which she long regarded as the mainstay of her writing career. She was one of the earliest female authors to contribute to women's magazines, especially when they were first becoming popular during the mid-to late 19th century, and later became an influential figure in the industry. Because of her dominance over the Women at Home, editor-in-chief W.R. Nicoll often called it Annie Swan's Magazine. She later became editor of the magazine from 1893 to 1917.
Swan was also very active in politics during her lifetime. A well-known suffragist, she was a member of the Liberal Party
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
and was its first female candidate when she stood for the Maryhill division
Maryhill
Maryhill is an area of the City of Glasgow in Scotland. Maryhill is a former burgh. The population of Maryhill is about 52,000. Maryhill stretches over along Maryhill Road...
of Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
in the campaign of 1922
United Kingdom general election, 1922
The United Kingdom general election of 1922 was held on 15 November 1922. It was the first election held after most of the Irish counties left the United Kingdom to form the Irish Free State, and was won by Andrew Bonar Law's Conservatives, who gained an overall majority over Labour, led by John...
. She was also a founding member and one-time vice president of the Scottish National Party
Scottish National Party
The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....
.
Biography
Annie Shepherd Swan was born at Mountskip, near GorebridgeGorebridge
Gorebridge is a former mining village in Midlothian, Scotland. The village gets its name from the bridge across the River Gore, a tributary of the South Esk. It was once the home of Scotland's first gunpowder mill, at the Gore Water, commencing operation in 1794.Gorebridge has an annual gala day....
, Midlothian
Midlothian
Midlothian is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and a lieutenancy area. It borders the Scottish Borders, East Lothian and the City of Edinburgh council areas....
, on July 8, 1859. One of seven children, her family was broken up following her mother's death and her father's subsequent remarriage. She was homeschooled
Homeschooling
Homeschooling or homeschool is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school...
by a governess
Governess
A governess is a girl or woman employed to teach and train children in a private household. In contrast to a nanny or a babysitter, she concentrates on teaching children, not on meeting their physical needs...
and began writing short stories at the age of 15. Swan was educated at the Ladies' College in Edinburgh, and later began writing children's books and articles for The Woman at Home and various religious magazines. During the next several years, her monthly articles were praised for being "full of sound sense and sympathetic knowledge".
She published her first novel, Ups And Downs (1878), at age 19. Though it was not commercially successful, her second book Aldersyde (1883) proved very popular and ended up becoming a best-seller
Bestseller
A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on lists of currently top selling titles that are based on publishing industry and book trade figures and published by newspapers, magazines, or bookstore chains. Some lists are broken down into classifications and...
. The story, a romance set in a coastal community in the Scottish Borders
Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the non-metropolitan counties of Northumberland...
, was favourably reviewed by critics. Swan received an autographed letter from Lord Tennyson as well as a letter from then Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...
who considered it a "beautiful as a work of art" for its "truly living sketches of Scottish character". Aldersyde served as a model for her later "Kailyard" writings as well as those of regional middle class life and light romance novels. These stories often featured themes of "sisterly and motherly love, the virtues of a good woman, and a happy resolution of romantic problems".
Swan later sold the copyright of Aldersyde for £50. Already having acquired a large audience though her novel, she capitalized on this success by reaching an even wider audience though serial publications
Serial (literature)
In literature, a serial is a publishing format by which a single large work, most often a work of narrative fiction, is presented in contiguous installments—also known as numbers, parts, or fascicles—either issued as separate publications or appearing in sequential issues of a single periodical...
in magazines such as The Woman at Home and The People's Friend
The People's Friend
The People's Friend is a British weekly magazine founded in 1869 and currently published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. Its tagline is "The famous story magazine".The magazine is principally aimed at older women and is broadly traditionalist in outlook...
. Though she was long associated with publisher W.R. Nicoll, she later wrote for other publications as well. Among them included The British Weekly and the Glasgow Weekly Mail.
Some however, such as fellow author Margaret Oliphant, criticized these novels as portraying a stereotypical and unrealistic depiction of Scotland. Upon reviewing Carlowrie (1884), Oliphant publicly claimed the young authoress' work "presented an entirely distorted view of Scottish life". Swan responded that her novel's had indeed been influenced by Oliphant's work adding "The story was frankly modelled on the Border stories of Mrs Oliphant, for whom I had a passionate admiration, amounting to worship." She also defended her stories as being based on her own experiences.
In the same year Aldersyde was published, Swan married James Burnett Smith and they settled in Fife
Fife
Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire...
, then moved back to Edinburgh two years later. While living in Fife, she became close friends with Scottish theologin Robert Flint
Robert Flint
Robert Flint was a Scottish theologian and philosopher, who wrote also on sociology.He was born near Dumfries and educated, at the University of Glasgow. After a few years of pastoral service, first in Aberdeen and then at Kilconquhar, Fife, he was appointed professor of moral philosophy and...
and his sister. Smith had wanted to become a doctor, but was unable to afford the heavy financial costs, and abandoned his studies to become a schoolteacher. The lived in a schoolhouse near the Star of Markinch from 1883 to 1885; the Scottish poet Duncan Glen
Duncan Glen
Professor Duncan Munro Glen was a Scottish poet, literary editor and Emeritus Professor of Visual Communication at Nottingham Trent University. He became known to the literary world through his first full-length book, "Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance"...
resided in a nearby farm cottage almost a century later. Through Swan's encouragement, he later resumed his studies, partially supported by her income as a writer, and eventually earned his medical degree. In 1892, she and her husband moved to London where she became a leading writer for women's magazines in the earliest years of their popularity. She became an influential figure in the industry and edited The Woman at Home from 1893 to 1917, and ran a penny weekly
Penny Dreadful
A penny dreadful was a type of British fiction publication in the 19th century that usually featured lurid serial stories appearing in parts over a number of weeks, each part costing an penny...
called the Annie S. Swan Penny Stories towards the end of the 1890s. While living in Camden Square
Camden Square
Camden Square is a rectangular town square in the London Borough of Camden running parallel to Camden Road north of central Camden. Amy Winehouse and Orlando Jewitt both lived and died on the square, and one of its houses once housed the West African Students' Union. It now has a playground and dog...
, Swan and her husband became close friends with writer Beatrice Harraden
Beatrice Harraden
Beatrice Harraden was a British writer and suffragette.Born in London on 24 January 1864, Harraden studied in Dresden, at Cheltenham Ladies’ College in Gloucestershire and at Queen’s College and Bedford College in London, and received a bachelor’s degree...
and others; they were later friends and neighbours with Harraden as well as Joseph and Emma Parker while living in Hampstead
Hampstead
Hampstead is an area of London, England, north-west of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Camden in Inner London, it is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical and literary associations and for Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland...
years later.
By 1898, Swan had published over 30 books. While these were primarily novels, many of which being serially published, she also wrote poetry and short stories as well as non-fiction books on advice, politics and religion. In 1901, The Juridical Review reported that Swan's books were the most favoured among female inmates in Irish prisons. In 1906, she was profiled in Helen Black's Notable Women Authors of the Day.
She used her maiden name for most of her career but also used the pseudonyms David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett-Smith at various times. Swan was a respected public speaker as well and became involved in social and political causes, such as the Temperance movement
Temperance movement
A temperance movement is a social movement urging reduced use of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements may criticize excessive alcohol use, promote complete abstinence , or pressure the government to enact anti-alcohol legislation or complete prohibition of alcohol.-Temperance movement by...
, in Britain during this time. She wrote books and novels on the suffragette movement in Britain
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom as a national movement began in 1872. Women were not prohibited from voting in the United Kingdom until the 1832 Reform Act and the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act...
, often under her David Lyall pen name, such as Margaret Holroyd: or, the Pioneers (1910). The novel was a collection of interconnecting short stories that followed a young suffragette, Margaret Holroyd, and dealt with many real-life problems faced by suffragettes such as disapproval from family and friends, fear of public speaking, physical exhaustion and ethical dilemmas in a rebellious and sometimes militant atmosphere.
During the First World War, Swan resigned her editorial position and volunteered to join the British war effort. Working for the Ministry of Food, she visited soldiers' camps in Britain and abroad. Swan visited the United States in January 1918 and again after the Armistice
Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)
The armistice between the Allies and Germany was an agreement that ended the fighting in the First World War. It was signed in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest on 11 November 1918 and marked a victory for the Allies and a complete defeat for Germany, although not technically a surrender...
at the end of the year. She met with Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...
, then head of the U.S. Food Administration, and lectured on the necessity for conserving food on the American homefront
United States home front during World War I
The home front of the United States in World War I saw a systematic mobilization of the entire population and the entire economy to produce the soldiers, food supplies, munitions, and money needed to win the war...
as well as informing the American public of Britain's wartime contributions. Two successful plays, Getting Together by John Hay Beith
John Hay Beith
Major General John Hay Beith, CBE , from Edinburgh, Scotland, was a schoolmaster and soldier, and, under the pen name Ian Hay, a novelist and playwright.-Background:...
and The Better 'Ole by Bruce Bairnsfather
Bruce Bairnsfather
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather was a prominent British humorist and cartoonist. His best-known cartoon character is Old Bill...
, were written for the occasion. While in the United States, she also took the opportunity to write a book on the cultural differences between women in Britain and the United States titled As Others See Her: An Englishwoman's Impressions of the American Woman in War Time (1919).
Shortly after the passage of voting rights for women in the United Kingdom
Representation of the People Act 1918
The Representation of the People Act 1918 was an Act of Parliament passed to reform the electoral system in the United Kingdom. It is sometimes known as the Fourth Reform Act...
, Swan became a member of the Liberal Party
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
and became its first female candidate when she ran for the Maryhill division
Maryhill
Maryhill is an area of the City of Glasgow in Scotland. Maryhill is a former burgh. The population of Maryhill is about 52,000. Maryhill stretches over along Maryhill Road...
of Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
in the general election of 1922
United Kingdom general election, 1922
The United Kingdom general election of 1922 was held on 15 November 1922. It was the first election held after most of the Irish counties left the United Kingdom to form the Irish Free State, and was won by Andrew Bonar Law's Conservatives, who gained an overall majority over Labour, led by John...
. Following her defeat, the Women's Freedom League
Women's Freedom League
The Women's Freedom League was an organisation in the United Kingdom which campaigned for women's suffrage and sexual equality.The group was founded in 1907 by seventy members of the Women's Social and Political Union including Teresa Billington-Greig, Charlotte Despard, Elizabeth How-Martyn, and...
claimed that Swan and other female candidates would have been elected under the system of proportional representation
Proportional representation
Proportional representation is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received. For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular...
as seen in other European countries such as Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
, Holland and Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
Starting in 1924, Swan ran another penny weekly The Annie Swan Annual. She also wrote several popular novels during this time including The Last of the Laidlaws (1920), Closed Doors (1926) and The Pendulum (1926). After her husband's death in 1927, Swan returned to Scotland settling in Gullane
Gullane
Gullane is a town on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth in East Lothian on the east coast of Scotland. There has been a church in the village since the 9th century. The ruins of the Old Church of St...
, East Lothian
East Lothian
East Lothian is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and a lieutenancy Area. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Scottish Borders and Midlothian. Its administrative centre is Haddington, although its largest town is Musselburgh....
. In 1930, she received the CBE
CBE
CBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering...
in recognition of her contribution to literature. She also remained involved in politics becoming a founding member of the Scottish National Party
Scottish National Party
The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....
and served as its vice president. She continued writing throughout her life and, in 1934, wrote her autobiography My Life. Her final published work was an article for Homes and Gardens, "Testament of Age", in March 1943. She died of heart disease three months later at her home in Gullane on June 17, 1943. A collection of her personal correspondence, The Letters of Annie S. Swan (1945), was edited by Mildred Robertson Nicoll and published posthumously two years later.
In the years following her death, there has been little study of her life or work by literary historians. However, articles such as Edmond Gardiner's "Annie S. Swan - Forerunner of Modern Popular Fiction" (1974) and Charlotte Reid's "A Cursory of Inspection to Annie S. Swan" (1990) have pointed out her literary contributions. Several of her novels have been reprinted in the last decade.
Further reading
- Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800-1914. London: Routledge, 1996. ISBN 0-415-04920-2
- Finkelstein, David and Alistair McCleery. The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland: Professionalism and Diversity, 1880-2000. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-7486-1829-5
- Gardiner, Edmond F. "Annie S. Swan - Forerunner of Modern Popular Fiction". Library Review. 24.6 (1974).
- Reid, Charlotte. "A Cursory of Inspection to Annie S. Swan". Cencrastus. (Winter 1990/91).
External links
- Annie S. Swan at UndiscoveredScotland.co.uk
- Annie S. Swan at The Orlando Project
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