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Poet
The Resume
(November 11, 1815-March 23, 1891)
Born in Bennington, Vermont
Born Anne Charlotte Lynch
Graduated from Albany Female Academy (1834)
Wrote ’The Rhode Island Book’ (1841), ‘Poems’ (1848) and ‘Handbook of Universal Literature’ (1960)
Died of pneumonia in New York City
Why she might be annoying
She was more of a literary hostess than a writer.
She and Margaret Fuller got into a scandal involving Edgar Allan Poe and Frances Sargent Osgood.
She refused to write an autobiography, which could have given us more detail of her life.
Why she might not be annoying
Her father drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Port-au-Prince.
Her house was a gathering place for famous writers of her heyday.
Her maternal great-grandfather was a lieutenant who fought for the American Revolution.
Edgar Allan Poe admired her writing and considered them superior to anyone else’s.
Credit: Big Lenny
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Year In Review:
For 2019, as of last week, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 35 Votes: 37.14% Annoying
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