Annibel Jenkins
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Annibel Jenkins | |
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 Annibel Jenkins, as a high school student, from a 1934 newspaper. | |
| Born | March 4, 1918 Shubuta, Mississippi |
| Died | March 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.
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]
