Anne Dacier

(1654-1720)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dacier, Madame (Anne), d. 1720 LBT ID: AnDacie1720 VIAF ID: 88047228 LOC ID: n85196209	B/BAP: 1654 DIED: 1720-08-17
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French Hellenist and translator; she took the part of the ancients in the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes.
REFERENCES TO Anne Dacier: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. II. 1752-1761 Found 1: ¶ 13 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1826 Found 1: ¶ 5 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Shelley at Oxford Found 1: ¶ 17 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. VIII” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (October 1847) 227-40 Found 1: ¶ 45