Annibel Jenkins
A young white woman with short dark hair in curls behind her ears.
Annibel Jenkins, as a high school student, from a 1934 newspaper.
BornMarch 4, 1918
Shubuta, Mississippi
DiedMarch 20, 2013
Atlanta, Georgia
Occupation(s)Scholar, professor, writer

Annibel Jenkins (March 4, 1918 – March 20, 2013) was an American college professor and scholar of the eighteenth century.

Early life

Annibel Jenkins was born in Shubuta, Mississippi,[1] and raised in Whiteville, Tennessee, Forest and Lucedale, Mississippi, the daughter of George Shaeffer Jenkins and Lona Belle Miley Jenkins. Her father was a Baptist minister.[2][3] She graduated from Blue Mountain College in 1938 with a bachelor of arts degree and a diploma in piano performance.[4][5][6] She earned a master's degree at Baylor University. She completed doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1965, with a dissertation titled "A Study of the Post-Angel, 1701-1702".[7]

Career

Jenkins taught at various southern colleges during her graduate studies, including Central Baptist College in Arkansas,[8] the University of Alabama, the University of Florida, and Wake Forest University. She also taught piano at Blue Mountain College.[9]

Jenkins was named head of the English department at Belhaven College in 1959.[1] She was a professor of English at Georgia Institute of Technology for most of her career. She was a founding member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) and the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS).[10]

She wrote several books, including I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald (2003),[11][12] Nicholas Rowe (1977),[13] and Paradise Garden: A Trip Through Howard Finster's Visionary World (1996, with her nephew Robert Peacock).[14]

Personal life and legacy

Annibel Jenkins died in 2013, aged 95 years, in Atlanta.[10] The Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize was established by ASECS in 1997.[15] Notable winners have included Richard Wendorf (1997), Nicholas Boyle (2002), George M. Marsden (2004), Allan Greer (2006), Douglas Smith (2010), and Jane Kamensky (2017). The Annibel Jenkins Prize in Performance and Theater Studies was established in 2012 by SEASECS, for an article-length work on eighteenth-century theatre or performance.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b "Belhaven Lists New English Department Head". Clarion-Ledger. 1959-09-03. p. 52. Retrieved 2020-11-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Miss Annibel Jenkins Wins Honors at Graduation". Clarion-Ledger. 1934-04-29. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-11-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Rev. Jenkins of Lucedale Dies; Rites Sunday". Hattiesburg American. 1962-12-29. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-11-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "BMC Graduation Candidates Told". Clarion-Ledger. 1938-05-11. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-11-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Student Gives Music Recital". Clarion-Ledger. 1938-03-17. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-11-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Magazine Issued by BMC Students". Clarion-Ledger. 1937-01-22. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-11-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Jenkins, Annibel (1964). A Study of the Post-angel, 1701-1702. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  8. ^ "Untitled item". Hattiesburg American. 1943-07-30. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-11-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Blue Mountain to Open Doors for School September 12". Clarion-Ledger. 1944-08-20. p. 13. Retrieved 2020-11-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ a b Shaw, Michelle E. "Annibel Jenkins, 95: English professor at Georgia Tech". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  11. ^ Jenkins, Annibel. (2015). I'll tell you what : the life of Elizabeth Inchbald. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-5964-5. OCLC 900344583.
  12. ^ King, Kathryn R. (2005). "Writing the lives of women: recent biographies of eighteenth-century women writers." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 5, no. 1; p. 99.
  13. ^ Jenkins, Annibel. (1977). Nicholas Rowe. Boston: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0-8057-6663-4. OCLC 2597268.
  14. ^ Peacock, Robert; Jenkins, Annibel (1996). Paradise Garden: A Trip Through Howard Finster's Visionary World. Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-0-8118-1197-2.
  15. ^ "Annibel Jenkins Prize". ASECS Awards and Prizes. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  16. ^ "Annibel Jenkins Prize". SEASECS. Retrieved 2020-11-20.

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