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Anne Lingard Klinck (née Hibbert; January 4, 1943 – July 7, 2023) was a Canadian academic and writer. Her work focused on the classics and was an authority on the female voice in lyric poetry.

Early life

Klinck was born in Chester, England on January 4, 1943 to British-Canadian father, Sydney Hibbert, as Anne Lingard Hibbert.

Education

Klinck received a bachelor's and a master's degree from the University of Oxford. She also has a master's degree from McGill University and she also has a master's and a PhD from the University of New Brunswick.

Career

Klinck worked at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) for eighteen years before retiring as Professor Emerita. While working at UNB she co-directed the English programs.

Klinck was an authority on the female voice in lyric poetry.

Death

Klinck died from esophageal cancer on July 7, 2023, at the age of 80.

Selected publications

• Animal Imagery in Wulf and Eadwacer and the Possibilities of Interpretation, Papers on Language and Literature, 23 (1): 3–13
• The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study, 1992 and 2001, McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN 9780773522411
• The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi , 2000, University of Ottawa Press.
• Anne Kilnck and Anne Marie Rasmusen, Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches, 2002, University of Pennsylvania Press
• An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song , 2004 Palgrave Press
• Woman’s Songs in Ancient Greece, 2008, McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN 9780773534483
• The Voices of Medieval English Lyric: An Anthology of Poems, 2019 McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN 978-0-7735-5882-3

References

1. ^ "Anne Klinck". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved July 12, 2023 – via Remembering.ca.
2. "Obituary for HIBBERT (Aged 87)". The Guardian. 1987-07-24. p. 30. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
3. ^ "Profile page for: Anne Klinck | UNB". www.unb.ca. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
4. "UBC approves degrees of 1,169 students". The Vancouver Sun. 3 Dec 1970. p. 41.
5. ^ "Emeritus | Anne Klinck | UNB". www.unb.ca. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
6. Rory G. Critten (2020) Eleventh-Century Drag Acts? Three Old English Poems at Exeter Cathedral, Exemplaria, 32:4, 346-367, DOI: 10.1080/10412573.2020.1846348
7. Magennis, Hugh (2011). The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature. Cambridge University Press. pp. 153, 154, 155. ISBN 978-0521519472.
8. Mora, María José (November 1993). "Klinck, Anne L. The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study (review)". Atlantis (in Spanish). 15, 335-338. hdl:11441/16617.
9. Boffey, Julia (2004). "Review of Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 103 (3): 392–394. ISSN 0363-6941. JSTOR 27712443.
10. Rosenberg, Samuel N. (2003). "Review of Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches". Romance Philology. 57 (1): 120–125. doi:10.1484/J.RPH.2.304524. ISSN 0035-8002. JSTOR 44741859.
11. Classen, Albrecht (2006). "Review of Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song". Mediaevistik. 19: 299–300. ISSN 0934-7453. JSTOR 42586374.
12. Whitehead, Christiania (2021-01-01). "Anne L. Klinck, The Voices of Medieval English Lyric: An Anthology of Poems ca. 1150–1530". Speculum. 96 (1): 236–238. doi:10.1086/712196. ISSN 0038-7134. S2CID 234147767.

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