Anne Hunter

Anne Hunter (née Home; 1742 – 7 January 1821) was a salonnière and poet in Georgian London. She is remembered mostly for the texts to at least nine of Joseph Haydn's 14 songs in English. She was the wife of surgeon and anatomist John Hunter, whose anatomical collections in their home eventually formed the basis for the Hunterian Museum. She entertained the leading Bluestockings at their house.

Quotes

• My mother bids me bind my hair
     With bands of rosy hue,
  Tie up my sleeves with ribbons rare,
     And lace my bodice blue.
  • "A Pastoral Song", st. 1; Haydn's Six Original Canzonettas (London: Dussek & Co., 1794), no. 3

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Anne Hunter on Wikipedia