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Swan, Annie S., 1859-1943

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us: Swan, Annie S., 1859-1943


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  • Variants

    • us: Burnett-Smith, A. (Annie), 1859-1943
    • us: Smith, Burnett, Mrs., 1859-1943
    • us: Smith, Annie S., 1859-1943
    • us: Smith, A. Burnett- (Annie Burnett-), 1859-1943

  • Additional Information

    • Birth Date

        (edtf) 1859-07-08

    • Death Date

        (edtf) 1943-06-17

    • Birth Place

        (naf) Edinburgh (Scotland)

    • Death Place

        (naf) Gullane (Scotland)

    • Associated Locale

        (naf) Great Britain

    • Associated Locale

        (naf) Star (Scotland)

    • Associated Locale

        (naf) Edinburgh (Scotland)

    • Associated Locale

        (naf) London (England)

    • Associated Locale

        (naf) Gullane (Scotland)

    • Gender

        female

    • Associated Language

        eng

    • Field of Activity

        (lcsh) Romance fiction
          (lcsh) Journalism
            (lcsh) Personals

          • Occupation

              (lcsh) Novelists
                (lcsh) Journalists

            • Additonal Related Forms

              • us: Lyall, David, 1859-1943

            • Sources

              • found: Her Miss Baxter's bequest, 1889: t.p. (Annie S. Swan)
              • found: UnM/Canadiana files (hdg.: Annie S. Swan, 1859-1943; usage: Annie S. Swan; Mrs. Burnett Smith; A. Burnett-Smith)
              • found: OCLC database, Dec. 21, 2000 (hdg.: Swan, Annie S., 1859-1943; usages: Annie S. Swan (Mrs. Burnett-Smith); A. Burnett-Smith) (hdg.: Smith, Annie S. Swan, 1859-1943; usage: Annie S. Swan) (hdg.: Smith, Annie S. Swan Burnett, 1859-1943; usage: Annie S. Swan)
              • found: Slainte WWW home page, May 24, 2002 Scottish Authors (Annie S. Swan ... departures from her usual style were stories for the British Weekly under the pseudonym David Lyall)
              • found: The biographical dict. of Scottish women, c2006 (Swan, Annie Shepherd (Annie S. Swan, David Lyall), CBE, m. Burnett-Smith; born Edinburgh 8 July 1859; died Gullane 17 June 1943; popular novelist and journalist; lived at Star, Markinch in Fife before moving to Edinburgh, then London and finally Gullane, East Lothian; she was also the agony aunt in 'Over the teacups' in The British weekly)
              • found: Wikipedia, 27 November 2015 (Under Ellen Buckingham Mathews (best known under pen name Helen Mathers): (Due to a confusion of titles, some sources attribute a number of books by Scottish novelist Anne S. Swan to Mathers; Mathers published a short novel entitled "The Land o' the Leal, by the Author of Comin' Thro' the Rye" in 1878. Swan published "The Land o' the Leal" (same title, completely different book) using her male pseudonym David Lyall, in 1896)

            • LC Classification

              • PR6037.M313

            • Change Notes

              • 1984-08-01: new
              • 2016-05-28: revised

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