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 productions are "Histoire de la Comtesse de Gondez;" "Anecdotes de la Cour de Philippe Auguste;" "Les Viellées de Thessalie;" "Memoirs Secret de la Cour de France, sous Charles VIII.;" "Anecdotes de la Cour de François I.;" &c. Some works were published under her name, which are now known to have been written by other persons, with whom she shared the profits. 

LYNCH, ANNE CHARLOTTE, 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. 

LYNN, ELIZA, born in the year 1828, at Crosthwaite, in Cumberland, of which place her father, the late Rev. James Lynn, D.D., was vicar. Her mother, whom she had the misfortune to lose when quite an infant, was the daughter of Dr. Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle. Dr. Lynn, holding church preferments which rendered a change of residence occasionally necessary, the early years of his daughter were passed alternately amid the wild picturesque scenery of the lake district, and the more rich and fertile vales of Kent, Gad's Hill, near Rochester, being her abode in the latter county. She was quiet and contemplative as a child, and when her opportunities of study and research had opened to her the rich stores of ancient history, she appeared to live almost wholly on the past; hence her power of realizing and depicting so vividly as she has done, in "Azeth, the Egyptian," and "Amymone, a Romance of the days of Pericles"—the outer and inner life of bygone times. The first of these well-sustained stories of the antique world was Published in 1846; they have taken their place with Croley's "Salathiel," Bulwer's "Last Days of Pompeii," and become part of our standard literature. Miss Lynn is also the author of "Realities," a story of the present day; and numerous tales, essays, etc., contributed to the various leading periodicals.