Anne Lingard Klinck (; 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.
Early life Klinck was born in Chester, England on January 4, 1943 to British-Canadian father, Sydney Hibbert, as Anne Lingard Hibbert.
Education Klinck received a bachelor's and a master's degree from the University of Oxford. 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.
Career Klinck worked at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) for eighteen years before retiring as Professor Emerita. While working at UNB she co-directed the English programs.
Klinck was an authority on the female voice in lyric poetry.
Death Klinck died from esophageal cancer on July 7, 2023, at the age of 80.
Selected publications Animal Imagery in Wulf and Eadwacer and the Possibilities of Interpretation, Papers on Language and Literature, 23 (1): 3–13Rory 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 The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study, 1992 and 2001, McGill-Queen's University Press The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, 2000, University of Ottawa Press. Anne Kilnck and Anne Marie Rasmusen, Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches, 2002, University of Pennsylvania Press An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song, 2004 Palgrave Press Woman’s Songs in Ancient Greece, 2008, McGill-Queen's University Press The Voices of Medieval English Lyric: An Anthology of Poems, 2019 McGill-Queen's University Press,
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