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Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lynch) Botta
1815–1891
A lively poet, teacher, and salon host, she helped make her New York home a gathering place for many of the best-known writers of the 19th century. Her work moves between verse, conversation, and literary culture, giving a vivid glimpse of American intellectual life in her era.
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Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Authorities
by Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lynch) Botta
About the author
Born in Bennington, Vermont, in 1815, Anne Charlotte Lynch was educated at the Albany Female Academy, where she graduated with honors. She later taught in Providence and in Brooklyn, while also building a reputation as a poet and writer.
She became especially well known for the literary gatherings she hosted in New York, which drew many prominent authors, artists, and thinkers of the day. After marrying the Italian scholar Vincenzo Botta in 1855, she was widely known as Anne Lynch Botta, and her home remained an important center of cultural life.
Her published work included Poems (1849) and the Hand-Book of Universal Literature (1860). Remembered both for her own writing and for the community she created around books and ideas, she remains a distinctive figure in 19th-century American literary history.