Anne Klinck

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.

Anne Klinck
Born	(1943-01-04)January 4, 1943 Chester, England
Died	July 7, 2023(2023-07-07) (aged 80)
Occupation(s)	Academic, writer

Early life

Klinck was born in Chester, England on January 4, 1943^[1] to British-Canadian father, Sydney Hibbert, as Anne Lingard Hibbert.^[2]

Education

Klinck received a bachelor's and a master's degree from the University of Oxford.^[3] 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][4]

Career

Klinck worked at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) for eighteen years before retiring^[5] as Professor Emerita.^[3] While working at UNB she co-directed the English programs.^[5]

Klinck was an authority on the female voice in lyric poetry.^[5]

Death

Klinck died from esophageal cancer on July 7, 2023, at the age of 80.^[1]

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 ISBN 9780773522411^[7][8]
• The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi , 2000, University of Ottawa Press.^[3]
• 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 ISBN 9780773534483^[3]
• The Voices of Medieval English Lyric: An Anthology of Poems, 2019 McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN 978-0-7735-5882-3^[12]

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.