Anne Klinck

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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.{{Cite news |date=1987-07-24 |title=Obituary for HIBBERT (Aged 87) |pages=30 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97878254/obituary-for-hibbert-aged-87/ |access-date=2022-04-03}}

Education

Klinck received a bachelor's and a master's degree from the University of Oxford.{{Cite web |title=Profile page for: Anne Klinck {{!}} UNB |url=https://www.unb.ca/directory/arts-fr-english/klinck-anne.html |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=www.unb.ca |language=en}} 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.{{Cite news |date=3 Dec 1970 |title=UBC approves degrees of 1,169 students |pages=41 |work=The Vancouver Sun |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=97878597&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjQ5MjQxMjQ1MCwiaWF0IjoxNjQ4OTkxOTIwLCJleHAiOjE2NDkwNzgzMjB9.g7wVS0WxJyrpTic8PrCDfqamMotshDUMN3nX6t3BP1Y}}

Career

Klinck worked at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) for eighteen years before retiring{{Cite web |title=Emeritus {{!}} Anne Klinck {{!}} UNB |url=https://www.unb.ca/faculty/emeritus/honorees/fredericton/htol/klinck.html |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=www.unb.ca}} 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.{{Cite web |url=https://montrealgazette.remembering.ca/obituary/anne-klinck-1088538828 |title=Anne Klinck |work=Montreal Gazette |via=Remembering.ca |access-date=July 12, 2023}}

Selected publications

Animal Imagery in Wulf and Eadwacer and the Possibilities of Interpretation, Papers on Language and Literature, 23 (1): 3–13Rory 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
The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study, 1992 and 2001, McGill-Queen's University Press {{ISBN|9780773522411}}{{Cite book |last=Magennis |first=Hugh |title=The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0521519472 |pages=153, 154, 155}}{{Cite journal |last=Mora, María José |date=November 1993 |title=Klinck, Anne L. The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study (review) |url=https://idus.us.es/handle/11441/16617 |journal=Atlantis |language=Spanish |volume=15, 335-338.|hdl=11441/16617 }}
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{{Cite journal |last=Boffey |first=Julia |date=2004 |title=Review of Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27712443 |journal=The Journal of English and Germanic Philology |volume=103 |issue=3 |pages=392–394 |jstor=27712443 |issn=0363-6941}}{{Cite journal |last=Rosenberg |first=Samuel N. |date=2003 |title=Review of Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44741859 |journal=Romance Philology |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=120–125 |doi=10.1484/J.RPH.2.304524 |jstor=44741859 |issn=0035-8002|url-access=subscription }}
An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song , 2004 Palgrave Press{{Cite journal |last=Classen |first=Albrecht |date=2006 |title=Review of Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42586374 |journal=Mediaevistik |volume=19 |pages=299–300 |jstor=42586374 |issn=0934-7453}}
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}}{{Cite journal |last=Whitehead |first=Christiania |date=2021-01-01 |title=Anne L. Klinck, The Voices of Medieval English Lyric: An Anthology of Poems ca. 1150–1530 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/712196 |journal=Speculum |volume=96 |issue=1 |pages=236–238 |doi=10.1086/712196 |s2cid=234147767 |issn=0038-7134|url-access=subscription }}

References

Category:1943 births

Category:2023 deaths

Category:Canadian women academics

Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford

Category:McGill University alumni

Category:University of New Brunswick alumni

Category:Academic staff of the University of New Brunswick

Category:20th-century Canadian women writers

Category:21st-century Canadian women writers

Category:Deaths from esophageal cancer in Canada