Anna Seward et al. in Buxton - 8 June, 1793
from Letter from Anna Seward to John Saville, 10 June 1793, pages 252–253:
On Saturday I accompanied Mrs Sedley and Miss Greaves to the private parlour of a Mr and Mrs Wilkinson. We were entertained by a protegée of theirs—a Miss Stedman; a miracle of skill on the forte-piano and harpsichord. She is a little, pale, insignificant-looking girl, marked, even to seams, by the smallpox. From the light slenderness of her figure, and the childish smallness of a very white hand, she looks not more than sixteen, though she is twenty-two. About four years ago, she had the misfortune to perceive a growing deafness, whose progress the most … more >>
Anna Seward, Letter from Anna Seward to John Saville, 10 June 1793. In Archibald Constable (ed.), Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, volume 3 (Edinburgh, 1811), p. 252–253. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1535708188437 accessed: 1 September, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersVocal music | performed by Miss Stedman |
Music for piano and harpsichord | performed by Miss Stedman |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 8 June, 1793 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Notes
Mrs. Sedley's death in July 1793 is reported by Anna Seward in subsequent letters.