Damer, Honorable Anne Seymour

This exhibit provides information on 18th-century English novelist and sculptor Anne Seymour Damer, alongside a letter penned by Damer in collector William Upcott's compilation of letters by eminent women held at the New York Public Library.

For information on Damer and her life, please see Biography. For a transcription of her letter in Upcott's album, see Letter. For an analysis of Damer's 1801 novel, Belmour, see Belmour: A Novel in Three Volumes (1801). For a narrative-format podcast diving deeper into Anne Seymour Damer's life and the opposing views of her we have today based upon the people around her - from those who knew her best, to the people that slandered her - alongside a discussion of her lasting eminence, see Who Was Anne Seymour Damer?