Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anna Hume
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Standard Name: Hume, Anna
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.
The acclaim that Petrarch won in his lifetime shifted smoothly into a high reputation after his death. The first English author to refer to him was Chaucer
.
Nicholl, Charles. “On the Sixth Day”. London Review of Books, Vol.
41
, No. 3, 7 Feb. 2019, pp. 23-6.
24
He was a vital inspiration to...
Publishing
Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
Her version of the opening two chapters of Petrarch's Triumph of Death was first (very inaccurately) published in 1912.
Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, 1979, http://BLC.
143
It appears, from a manuscript now held by the Inner Temple
in London, as...
Textual Features
Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
In a dedication to her grandchildren (unpaginated), BBBD
gives some history of her translations, made at different and distant periods of my life.
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Translations from the Italian. C. Whittingham, 1836.
In old age QEI
translated Boethius, Plutarch, Tacitus
, and Horace. Most of this work was printed as Queen Elizabeth's Englishings, 1899. Her rendering of the opening passage of Petrarch
's The Triumph of...
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Texts
Hume, Anna. Anna Hume. Editor Roche, Thomas P., Jr, Ashgate, 2006.
Roche, Thomas P., Jr, and Anna Hume. “Introductory Note”. Anna Hume, edited by Thomas P., Jr Roche and Thomas P., Jr Roche, Ashgate, 2006, p. ix - xx.
Hume, Anna, and Petrarch. The Triumphs of Love: Chastitie: Death: Translated out of Petrarch. 1644.