Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Ann Jebb
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Standard Name: Jebb, Ann
Birth Name: Ann Torkington
Married Name: Ann Jebb
Pseudonym: Priscilla
Pseudonym: W- Bull
Pseudonym: - Bull
During the last quarter of the eighteenth century AJ
was an intellectual journalist and controversialist, publishing on both theological and political topics. Most of her printed writing is epistolary, and she also wrote letters then and early in the next century on political topics to various Reform-minded male friends.
Dr John Jebb
, Dissenting leader and husband of the polemical writer Ann Jebb
, was her great-uncle. AR
's mother left a ring to her cousin Ann Jebb. But neither of the Jebbs is...
Friends, Associates
Mary Wollstonecraft
Newington Green was a fortunate place for MW
to have settled: it was a centre of intellectual Dissent. There she met the radical minister Richard Price
, the poet Samuel Rogers
, and the teacher...
Among the book's contents are poems and fiction (including dream visions and an Oriental tale. Titles like Cleora, or the Misery Attending Unsuitable Connections and Josepha, or pernicious Effects of early Indulgence foreground Hays's didactic...
17 April 1774: The inaugural service was held at the first...
Building item
17 April 1774
The inaugural service was held at the first Unitarian
chapel, in Essex Street, London.
Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, 1787, pp. 1: 1 - 227.
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Webb, Robert Kiefer. “Miracles in English Unitarian Thought”. Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture, edited by Mark S. Micale and Robert L. Dietle, Stanford University Press, 2000, pp. 113-30.
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Texts
Jebb, Ann. A Letter to the Author of An Observation on the Design of Establishing Annual Examinations at Cambridge. Fletcher and Hodson, 1774.
Jebb, Ann. A Letter to the Author of the Proposal for the Establishment of Public Examinations. Fletcher and Hodson, 1774.
Jebb, Ann. Two Penny-worth More of Truth for a Penny. C. Stalker, and Knott, 1793.
Jebb, Ann. Two Penny-worth of Truth for a Penny. Printed for the booksellers, 1793.