Annie S. Swan
Scottish journalist and fiction writer, 1859–1943 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Annie Swan" redirects here. For the American art collector, see Annie Swan Coburn.
Annie Shepherd Swan, CBE (8 July 1859 – 17 June 1943) was a Scottish journalist and fiction writer. She wrote mainly in her maiden name, but also as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. A writer of romantic fiction for women, she had over 200 novels, serials, stories and other fiction published between 1878 and her death.[1][2][3][4] She has been called "one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries".[5] Swan was politically active in the First World War, and as a suffragist, a Liberal activist and founder-member and vice-president of the Scottish National Party.
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Born | Annie Shepherd Swan (1859-07-08)8 July 1859 Mountskip, Gorebridge, Scotland |
Died | 17 June 1943(1943-06-17) (aged 83) Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland |
Pen name | Annie S. Swan, Annie S. Smith, David Lyall, Mrs Burnett-Smith |
Occupation | Writer, novelist, journalist |
Genre | Fiction, dramatic fiction, romantic fiction, non-fiction, advice, feminism, politics, religion, social commentary |
Notable works | Aldersyde (1884) |
Spouse | James Burnett Smith (1883–1927) |
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