A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Lynch, Anne Charlotte
LYNCH, ANNE CHARLOTTE,
Was born at Bennington, Vennont. Her father, who died when she was a child, was one of the United Irishmen, and implicated in the same unfortunate rebellion with Robert Emmett. He was banished from Ireland, and, with several of his fellow-sufferers, went to America, where he married the daughter of an officer in the Revolutionary array. After her father's death, Miss Lynch removed with her widowed mother to New York, where she has since resided. Her poetical talents were developed early, and her first efforts attracted favourable attention; all her subsequent writings show the continual progress, both in grace of expression and power and depth of thought, that mark an original mind. Her effusions, both in prose and poetry, have generally appeared in the popular periodicals and annuals of the day. In 1849, she collected some of her poems in a volume, which was illustrated by several of the best American artists, and altogether was a most favourable specimen of the female literature of that country. Her writings are as remarkable for their purity and high-toned morality as for their feminine grace and feeling. Her kindly and social sympathies, and the love of communion with superior minds, felt by all intellectual people, have induced her to make her mother's house the gathering-place for the literati or distinguished persons in New York, thus filling, with graceful hospitality, a position; still left unoccupied in other American cities, and adding one more to the numerous attractions of the metropolis of the empire state.