David Hume

AH was a Scotswoman who during the earlier seventeenth century edited work by her father, David Hume of Godscroft , for publication and herself translated Petrarch into English verse.

AH and her brother James prepared for a Paris publisher a volume of their father's complete poetry in Latin, published in 1639, which printed some of James's work as well: this bore her brother's initials...

AH wrote to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus , about choice of dedicatee for The History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus by her father, David Hume of Godscroft, which she had edited...

She was the sister of a writer, James Hume , as well as the daughter of the historian and Latin poet David Hume of Godscroft (his own meaningful version of his estate's original name of...