Anne Klinck Explained

Anne Klinck
Birth Date:	4 January 1943
Birth Place:	Chester, England
Occupation:	Academic, writer

Anne Lingard Klinck (; 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.^[1]

Education

Klinck received a bachelor's and a master's degree from the University of Oxford.^[2] 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.^[3]

Career

Klinck worked at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) for eighteen years before retiring^[4] 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.^[5]

Selected publications

• Animal Imagery in Wulf and Eadwacer and the Possibilities of Interpretation, Papers on Language and Literature, 23 (1): 3–13^[6]
• The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study, 1992 and 2001, McGill-Queen's University Press ^{[7] [8]}
• 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^{[9] [10]}
• An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song, 2004 Palgrave Press^[11]
  • Woman’s Songs in Ancient Greece, 2008, McGill-Queen's University Press The Voices of Medieval English Lyric: An Anthology of Poems, 2019 McGill-Queen's University Press, ^[12]

Notes and References

1. News: 1987-07-24 . Obituary for HIBBERT (Aged 87) . 30 . The Guardian . 2022-04-03.
2. Web site: Profile page for: Anne Klinck UNB . 2022-04-03 . www.unb.ca . en.
3. News: 3 Dec 1970 . UBC approves degrees of 1,169 students . 41 . The Vancouver Sun .
4. Web site: Emeritus Anne Klinck UNB . 2022-04-03 . www.unb.ca.
5. Web site: Anne Klinck . Montreal Gazette . Remembering.ca . July 12, 2023.
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. Book: Magennis, Hugh . The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature . . 2011 . 978-0521519472 . 153, 154, 155.
8. Mora, María José . November 1993 . Klinck, Anne L. The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study (review) . Atlantis . Spanish . 15, 335-338.. 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 . 27712443 . 0363-6941.
10. Rosenberg . Samuel N. . 2003 . Review of Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches . Romance Philology . 57 . 1 . 120–125 . 10.1484/J.RPH.2.304524 . 44741859 . 0035-8002.
11. Classen . Albrecht . 2006 . Review of Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song . Mediaevistik . 19 . 299–300 . 42586374 . 0934-7453.
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 . 10.1086/712196 . 234147767 . 0038-7134.