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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815–1891)

Botta, Anne Charlotte Lynch. An American poet and essayist; born in Bennington, VT, Nov. 11, 1815; died in New York City, March 23, 1891. She came to New York in 1842, and in 1855 was married to Vincenzo Botta. Mrs. Botta’s home in New York was a center for literary and artistic people from the days of Poe, Willis, and Bryant, until her death. She was the author of stories, essays, ‘Poems’ (1848; new ed. 1884), and ‘A Handbook of Universal Literature’ (1845).