Caroline Grigson FSA was, until recently, Principal Curator of the Museums at the Royal College of Surgeons. Isobel Armstrong FBA is Emeritus Professor of English at Birkbeck College London and was John Hinkley Visiting Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University in 2005. She is on the editorial boards of several academic journals and a founder and co-editor of Women: A Cultural Review.

• 1. Acknowledgements2. Introduction by Isobel Armstrong3. Chronology4. Anne Hunter’s Life by Caroline Grigson – parents, childhood, the young woman, Angelica, Mrs John Hunter, the anonymous song-writer, Leicester Square, Dr Haydn, disaster, Isabella, rescue, publication, the Creation, George Thomson, ‘I am but a shabbi person’5. Anne Hunter’s Poetry5.1. The sources5.2. Earliest poems, published and manuscript5.3. Broadsheets5.4 ‘Nine Canzonets and Six Airs’5.5. Haydn and Salomon5.6. Poems known only in manuscript5.7. ‘Poems’ by Mrs John Hunter 18025.8. ‘Sports of the Genii’ by Mrs John Hunter 18045.9. Welsh Airs5.10. Late published poems5.11. Index of titles and first lines6. Bibliography7. Index

Caroline Grigson's The Life Poems of Anne Hunter; Haydn's Tuneful Voice is a careful reconstruction of the life of a female poet who crossed over intectual culture and the arts at the end of the eighteenth century. The sometime lyricist for Joseph Haydn, Hunter was an intimate of the Bluestockings (Elizabeth Carter especially), the aunt of Joanna Baillie, and a full-time poet. Grigson's Life and Poems is part critical biography and part edition, and in both respects the first of its kind. Sixty of Hunter's two hundred or so poems were published anonymously in an 1802 collection, others had appeared in anthologies, music books, or broadsides, and many lay unpublished in manuscripts. Grigson has brought these together and printed them along with a seventy-odd page biography. A great deal of sleuthing and hunting went into putting together the verse. While I might have liked fuller annotation or a record of variants - textual notes are quite slim and line numbers nonexistent - this nevertheless is a fine act of recovery and assembling. The scholarly project of the Seward and Hunter books hovers around literary biography, edition, and the presentation of life writing. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. 50.3 A fine act of recovery and assembling. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. 50.3 In collecting Anne Hunter's verse, scattered through anthologies and archives, Caroline Grigson has taken a significant step towards restoring the reputation of this unfairly neglected poet. TLS Caroline Grigson's The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter: Haydn's Tuneful Voice restores to view the oeuvre of Anne Home Hunter, best known as the author of lyrics for song settings by Joseph Haydn. The volume reveals a substantial poet, developing ballad and lyric traditions in innovative ways; in addition to reprinting her Poems (1802) it collects works from other printed sources and from manuscripts. Julie Sheldon's edition of the Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake draws most of its contents from the John Murray archive, recently acquired by the National Library of Scotland, to bring to light an important figure in Victorian artistic and literary circles, hitherto hard to discern because she did not write for publication. Her correspondence with Murray and Austen Henry Layard dominates the collection, which also includes letters to Effie Gray (Ruskin) and Florence Nightingale. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, The Nineteenth Century Volume 50, Number 4