Annie Shepherd Swan
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.
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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| Date of birth | 8 July 1859
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| Place of birth | Mountskip, Scotland
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| Date of death | 17 June 1943
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| Place of death | Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland
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