Anne Steele

14 May 1717 - 11 November 1778

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.

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.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

B., J. R., and Anne Steele. “Introduction”. Hymns, London Gospel Standard Baptist Trust.

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.

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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.

prelims

B., J. R., and Anne Steele. “Introduction”. Hymns, London Gospel Standard Baptist Trust.

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.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

B., J. R., and Anne Steele. “Introduction”. Hymns, London Gospel Standard Baptist Trust.