Anne Steele

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AS 's eighteenth-century poetry, hymns, and meditations, widely admired in their day, have had their distinctive qualities overlooked or obscured by mainstream critics, perhaps partly because of her Particular Baptist faith. Her co-religionists, meanwhile, have continued to value and reprint her work, and this has now led to new scholarly and critical attention.
  • BirthName: Anne Steele
  • Pseudonyms: Silvania
    This was the name AS used for writings within her family circle. She signed this was to her half-sister Mary or Molly, who signed herself as Amira.
    Watson, J. R., and Nancy Cho. “Anne Steele’s Drowned Fiancé”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
    28
    , No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2005, pp. 117-21.
    120
    Broome, J. R. A Bruised Reed. Anne Steele: Her Life and Times. Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 2007.
    110
    ; Theodosia; A Young Lady

Milestones

By mid-May 1717

AS was born at Broughton in Hampshire, the younger of her parents' two surviving children.
Broome, J. R. A Bruised Reed. Anne Steele: Her Life and Times. Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 2007.
57
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
B., J. R., and Anne Steele. “Introduction”. Hymns, London Gospel Standard Baptist Trust, 1967.
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By October 1759

AS published, as Theodosia, Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, in two volumes (for hymns and poems respectively), with 1760 on the title-page.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Broome, J. R. A Bruised Reed. Anne Steele: Her Life and Times. Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 2007.
144

11 November 1778

AS died at her lifelong home in Broughton in Hampshire; the prefatory material to her Works states that she was glad to die.
Steele, Anne. The Works of Mrs. Anne Steele. Munroe, Francis and Parker, 1808, 2 vols.
prelims
B., J. R., and Anne Steele. “Introduction”. Hymns, London Gospel Standard Baptist Trust, 1967.
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Biography

Birth and Background

By mid-May 1717

AS was born at Broughton in Hampshire, the younger of her parents' two surviving children.
Broome, J. R. A Bruised Reed. Anne Steele: Her Life and Times. Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 2007.
57
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
B., J. R., and Anne Steele. “Introduction”. Hymns, London Gospel Standard Baptist Trust, 1967.
x

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