Utente:Marta celio/Anne Hunter

Anne Home as The Pensive Muse, before her marriage to John Hunter. Engraving by W. W. Ryland, after a lost portrait by Angelica Kauffman, 1767.

Anne Hunter (née Home) (1742–1821) was a saloniere and poet in Georgian London. She is mostly remembered now for the texts to at least nine of Joseph Haydn's 14 songs in English. She was the wife of the celebrated surgeon John Hunter, and his anatomical collections in their marital home eventually formed the basis for the Hunterian Museum.

On John Hunter's death in 1793, his widow was left ill provided for. For some time she was indebted for a maintenance partly to the queen's bounty and to the generosity of Dr. Maxwell Garthshore, and partly to the sale of her husband's furniture, library, and curiosities. Her son-in-law, Sir James Campbell of Inverneill, provided her with a small annuity, and in 1799 Parliament voted to give her ₤15,000 for her husband's collections, which finally placed her in fair circumstances. (This became The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons in London; when his anatomist brother to William died in 1783, he bequeathed his collection to Glasgow, where it became the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery.)

Poesie e canzoni

Come una giovane donna ha guadagnato molte note come poetessa lirica, i suoi "Fiori della foresta" appaiono nel The Lark, come periodo Endiburghese. Trentadue anni dopo  la poetessa scrisse "Sports of the Genii" per immortalare un gradevole disegno di Susan Macdonald(d. 1803); Ciò generò umore e fantasia . Lei pubblicò un volume di poesie nel 1802 che ottenne subito la seconda edizione i prossimi anni. Il giornale conservatore  Brirtish Critic suggerisce che le sue poesiemostranonojn profondità di pensiero, ma hanno un sentimento naturale e una semplicità di espressione , che fanno di molte di queste sue poesie una lettura di valore a young woman she had gained some note as a lyrical poet, her "Flower of the Forest" appearing in The Lark, an Edinburgh periodical, in 1765. Thirty-two years later she wrote "Sports of the Genii" to a set of graceful drawings by Susan Macdonald (d. 1803), eldest daughter of Lord-chief-baron Macdonald; these display humour and fancy. She published a volume of poems in 1802 which ran to a second edition the following year. The conservative magazine British Critic suggests that her poems show no depth of thought, but have a natural feeling and simplicity of expression, which make many of them worth reading.

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