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Lady Anne Blunt
Image: Maull and Fox (photograph, 1883); restoration by Jebulon, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Lady Anne Blunt

آن بلنت

Notable figure 1837–1917 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 269 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Blunt, Anne (1837-1917)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of The Seven Golden Odes (1903)

Biography

She learned Arabic and travelled with her husband Wilfrid Blunt in the Euphrates steppe and Najd, recording the journeys in Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates (London, 1879) and A Pilgrimage to Nejd (1881). She translated the Muʿallaqat into English prose, which her husband then put into verse, published as The Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia (London, 1903).