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.
Publishing
Anna Hume
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...
Textual Production
Anna Hume
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...
Textual Production
Anna Hume
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...
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Texts
Hume, David, of Godscroft. The History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus. 1644.
