The selections included Goethe's Torquato Tasso and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Schiller's Maid of Orleans.

Miss Swanwick's Faust passed through many editions and was included in Bohn's series of translations from foreign classics.

She took a keen interest in many social issues of the day, especially women's education, and in raising the moral and intellectual tone of the working classes.

She was associated with Anthony John Mundella and Sir Joshua Girling Fitch in carrying out the provisions of the will of Mrs. Emily Jane Pfeiffer, who left in 1890 large sums of money for the promotion of the higher education of women.

She strongly advocated the study of English literature in the universities, and herself lectured privately on the subject to young working men and women.

Her marvellous memory made her a delightful talker, and she was full of anecdotes in her later years about the eminent persons she had known.

[2] She died on 2 Nov. 1899 at Tunbridge Wells, and was buried in the Swanwick family plot on the western side of Highgate Cemetery five days later.