Annie S. Swan
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. She has been called "one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". 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.
Annie S. Swan CBE | |
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Swan in 1905 | |
| Born | Annie Shepherd Swan 8 July 1859 Mountskip, Gorebridge, Scotland |
| Died | 17 June 1943 (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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