Annibel Jenkins
{{short description|American scholar}}
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| caption = Annibel Jenkins, as a high school student, from a 1934 newspaper.
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| birth_date = March 4, 1918
| birth_place = Shubuta, Mississippi
| death_date = March 20, 2013
| death_place = Atlanta, Georgia
| occupation = Scholar, professor, writer
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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,{{Cite news|date=1959-09-03|title=Belhaven Lists New English Department Head|pages=52|work=Clarion-Ledger|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63646911/belhaven-lists-new-english-department/|access-date=2020-11-20|via=Newspapers.com}} 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.{{Cite news|date=1934-04-29|title=Miss Annibel Jenkins Wins Honors at Graduation|pages=11|work=Clarion-Ledger|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63633185/miss-annibel-jenkins-wins-honors-at/|access-date=2020-11-20|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|date=1962-12-29|title=Rev. Jenkins of Lucedale Dies; Rites Sunday|pages=1|work=Hattiesburg American|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63648746/rev-jenkins-of-lucedale-dies-rites/|access-date=2020-11-20|via=Newspapers.com}} She graduated from Blue Mountain College in 1938 with a bachelor of arts degree and a diploma in piano performance.{{Cite news|date=1938-05-11|title=BMC Graduation Candidates Told|pages=5|work=Clarion-Ledger|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63646304/bmc-graduation-candidates-told/|access-date=2020-11-20|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|date=1938-03-17|title=Student Gives Music Recital|pages=4|work=Clarion-Ledger|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63646425/student-gives-music-recital/|access-date=2020-11-20|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|date=1937-01-22|title=Magazine Issued by BMC Students|pages=9|work=Clarion-Ledger|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63646650/magazine-issued-by-bmc-students/|access-date=2020-11-20|via=Newspapers.com}} 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".{{Cite book|last=Jenkins|first=Annibel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pKO3oAEACAAJ|title=A Study of the Post-angel, 1701-1702|date=1964|publisher=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|language=en}}
Career
Jenkins taught at various southern colleges during her graduate studies, including Central Baptist College in Arkansas,{{Cite news|date=1943-07-30|title=Untitled item|pages=8|work=Hattiesburg American|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63647239/untitled-item/|access-date=2020-11-20|via=Newspapers.com}} the University of Alabama, the University of Florida, and Wake Forest University. She also taught piano at Blue Mountain College.{{Cite news|date=1944-08-20|title=Blue Mountain to Open Doors for School September 12|pages=13|work=Clarion-Ledger|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63647385/blue-mountain-to-open-doors-for-school/|access-date=2020-11-20|via=Newspapers.com}}
Jenkins was named head of the English department at Belhaven College in 1959. 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).{{Cite web|last=Shaw|first=Michelle E.|title=Annibel Jenkins, 95: English professor at Georgia Tech|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/local-obituaries/annibel-jenkins-english-professor-georgia-tech/oTvpMdWTa2TAH7UjRheIBO/|access-date=2020-11-20|website=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|language=en}}
She wrote several books, including I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald (2003),{{Cite book|last=Jenkins, Annibel.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900344583|title=I'll tell you what : the life of Elizabeth Inchbald|date=2015|publisher=The University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-5964-5|location=Lexington|oclc=900344583}}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. Nicholas Rowe (1977),{{Cite book|last=Jenkins, Annibel.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2597268|title=Nicholas Rowe|date=1977|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=0-8057-6663-4|location=Boston|oclc=2597268}} and Paradise Garden: A Trip Through Howard Finster's Visionary World (1996, with her nephew Robert Peacock).{{Cite book|last1=Peacock|first1=Robert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=boE0AQAAIAAJ&q=Annibel+Jenkins|title=Paradise Garden: A Trip Through Howard Finster's Visionary World|last2=Jenkins|first2=Annibel|date=1996|publisher=Chronicle Books|isbn=978-0-8118-1197-2|language=en}}
Personal life and legacy
Annibel Jenkins died in 2013, aged 95 years, in Atlanta. The Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize was established by ASECS in 1997.{{Cite web|title=Annibel Jenkins Prize|url=https://asecsoffice.wixsite.com/asecsawards/annibeljenkinsprize|access-date=2020-11-20|website=ASECS Awards and Prizes|language=en}} 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.{{Cite web|title=Annibel Jenkins Prize|url=http://www.seasecs.org/annibel-jenkins-prize|access-date=2020-11-20|website=SEASECS|language=en-US}}
References
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External links
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