About Me
Timothy Whelan (PhD, University of Maryland) is Professor of English at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA. His archival research has led to nearly 60 articles and some 12 books on British Dissenting writers (primarily Baptist), Dissenting booksellers and print culture, and religious an literary figures between 1720–1840, including the Romantic writers William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Henry Crabb Robinson, Joseph Cottle; the MP and leading abolitionist William Wilberforce; numerous Baptist ministers, including Andrew Fuller, Robert Hall, John Foster, John Ryland, and Joseph Hughes; and Dissenting women writers and booksellers, many relatively unknown, such as Maria de Fleury, Martha Gurney, Mary Lewis, Mary Steele, Anne Steele, Mary Scott, Elizabeth Coltman, and the diarist Jane Attwater Blatch. Some of Dr. Whelan's books include Politics, Religion, and Romance: The Letters of Benjamin Flower and Eliza Gould Flower, 1794–1808 (National Library of Wales, 2008); Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741–1845 (Mercer University Press, 2009); Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720–1840, 8 vols (Pickering & Chatto, 2011) (vols 1 and 2 edited by Julia B. Griffin, also of Georgia Southern University); Other British Voices (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); The Diary of Andrew Fuller (De Gruyter, 2016) (with Michael McMullen); Mary Hays: Life, Writings, and Correspondence (online edition); and Fatal Errors; or, Poor Mary-Anne, a Tale of the Last Century (Routledge, 2019) (with Felicity James). In recent years his primary research has been on the three eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women writers, Mary Steele (1753-1813), Mary Scott (1751-93), and Mary Hays (1759-1843), with articles on these women appearing in The Wordsworth Circle, Huntington Quarterly, Journal of Women's Studies, and the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He has also created an extensive website devoted to Mary Hays, at Mary Hays: Life, Writings, and Correspondence (www.maryhayslifewritingscorrespondence.com). For more information on Dr. Whelan's research and publications, click on the links below:
