Annie Shepherd Swan

Annie Shepherd Swan

Scottish journalist and fiction writer, 1859–1943
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Annie Shepherd Swan, CBE (8 July 1859 – 17 June 1943) was a Scottish journalist and fiction writer, who wrote mainly under her maiden name, but also as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. As a writer of romantic fiction for women, she published over 200 novels, serials, stories and other fiction between 1878 and her death in 1943. She has been called "one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". Swan was politically active during the First World War, as a suffragist, a Liberal activist, and a founder-member and vice-president of the Scottish National Party.

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Annie Shepherd Swan was born on Friday, 8 July 1859 in Mountskip, Scotland. She was best known as an activist. Swan's country of citizenship (nationality) was Scottish. She died on Thursday, 17 June 1943 in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland at the age of 83. Her zodiac star sign was Cancer.

You can find people similar to Annie Shepherd Swan by visiting our lists Pseudonymous women writers and Women's suffrage in Scotland.

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