# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/annie-s-swan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:27:27.367Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/annie-s-swan"
name: "Annie S. Swan"
slug: "annie-s-swan"
description: "Annie Shepherd Swan, CBE was a Scottish journalist and fiction writer. She wrote mainly under 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."
tagline: "Scottish writer, novelist and journalist, editor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mrs._A._Burnett_Smith_(Annie_S._Swan)_oval_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1859-07-08"
deathDate: "1943-06-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.86
  momentum:             5.192307692307693
  historical:           5.473902666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_S._Swan"
    title: "Annie S. Swan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "آني شابرد سوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_S._Swan"
    title: "Annie S. Swan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_S._Swan"
    title: "Annie S. Swan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_S._Swan"
    title: "Annie S. Swan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_S._Swan"
    title: "Annie S. Swan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4769426"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump