Annibel Jenkins PHD

JENKINS, ANNIBEL, PHD, Educator/Historian Annibel Jenkins passed away in her home in Atlanta, Georgia on March 20, 2013 at the age of 95. Jenkins, a professor emerita of English at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a lover and advocate of culture and literature, was the author of several books, including I’ll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald, Nicholas Rowe, and co-author of Paradise Garden: A Trip Through Howard Finster’s Visionary World. She also penned numerous articles on eighteenth-century literature and culture. Jenkins was a founding member of two scholarly societies established in the early 1970s, which would flourish in subsequent years: the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) and its regional affiliate, the Southeastern American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS). Jenkins continued writing and participating as a member of SEASECS until her death. SEASECS’ 39th annual meeting, held in Charleston, South Carolina, March 2013, the same week as Jenkins’ 95 birthday, was the occasion for the first awarding of the Annibel Jenkins Prize in Performance and Theater Studies. An additional prize named in her honor, and first awarded in 1997, is the Biennial Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, which is awarded to the author of the best book-length biography of a late seventeenth-century or eighteenth-century subject. As impressive as Ms. Jenkins’s career was, those who worked with her remember her as a consummate professional who took time for everyone she encountered, particularly as a mentor to many young professionals. She was also passionate about her family and friends. Ms. Jenkins is survived by her sister, Virginia Jenkins Peacock, brother George Miley Jenkins and nephew, Robert George Peacock. H.M. Patterson & Son-Oglethorpe Hill Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Internment was held privately at the Jenkins family plot in Lucedale, MS. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 2 P.M. at H. M. Patterson & Son – Oglethorpe Hill, 4550 Peachtree Road N. E., Atlanta GA 30319 (Phone 404-261-3510).