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PUBLICATONS BY TIMOTHY WHELAN

 

BOOKS and DIGITAL PROJECTS

 

  • Fatal Errors; or, Poor Mary-Anne, a Tale of the Last Century, ed. Timothy Whelan and Felicity James. London: Routledge, 2019.

  • Mary Hays: Life, Writings, and Correspondence, an online edition created, transcribed, and edited by Timothy Whelan, a massive website, and one of the first of its kind, devoted to an important woman novelist and writer of the Romantic Era. The site can be viewed at  www.maryhayslifewritingscorrespondence.com.

  • The Diary of Andrew Fuller, eds. Michael McMullen and Timothy Whelan. Vol. 1 of the Collected Works of Andrew Fuller, gen. ed. Michael Haykin, Louisville Seminary. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.

  • Other British Voices: Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766-1840. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 

  • The Letters of Henry Crabb Robinson and Mary Wordsworth, Wordsworth Library, Grasmere (2013), ed. Timothy Whelan. Digital publication through the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, UK. http://www.qmulreligionandliterature.co.uk/online-publications/the-letters-of-henry-crabb-robinson/

  • The Complete Writings of William Fox: Abolitionist, Tory, and Friend to the French Revolution. Edited by John Barrell and Timothy Whelan. Nottingham, UK: Trent Editions, 2011.

  • Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, 8 vols, general editor Timothy Whelan (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011). Vols. 1-2, volume editor Julia Griffin; vols. 3-8, volume editor Timothy Whelan.

 

  1. Anne Steele, Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional (1780), volume editor Julia Griffin. Vol. 1 of Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840.

  2. Anne Steele, Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose (1780), Verses for Children (1788), and Unpublished Poetry, Prose and Correspondence of Anne Steele, volume editor Julia Griffin. Vol. 2 of Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840.

  3. Poetry, Prose and Correspondence of Mary Steele, volume editor Timothy Whelan. Vol. 3 of Nonconformist Women’s Writing, 1720-1840.

  4. The Poetry and Correspondence of Mary Scott and other Women Writers of the Steele Circle, volume editor Timothy Whelan. Vol. 4 of Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840.

  5. Poetry of Maria Grace Saffery, volume editor Timothy Whelan. Vol. 5 of Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840.

  6. Correspondence of Maria Grace Saffery and Anne Andrews Whitaker, volume editor Timothy Whelan. Vol. 6 of Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840.

  7. Juvenile Fiction of Maria Grace Andrews Saffery; Religious Prose of Mary Egerton Scott, Elizabeth Coltman, and Jane Adams Houseman, volume editor Timothy Whelan. Vol. 7 of Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840.

  8. Diary and Meditations of Mrs John Walrond; Poetry, Prose, Letters and Selections from the Diary of Anne Cator Steele; Letters, Prose, and Poetry of Hannah Towgood Wakeford; Prose Writings of Jane Attwater; Diary of Frances Barrett Ryland; Diary of Elizabeth Horsey Saffery; Diary of Sophia Williams; Fragment of the Diary of Caroline Attwater Whitaker; Diary of Anne Andrews Whitaker, volume editor Timothy Whelan. Vol. 8 of Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840.

 

  • Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845, ed. Timothy Whelan. Macon: Baptist History Series, Mercer University Press, 2009.

  • Politics, Religion, and Romance: The Letters of Benjamin Flower and Eliza Gould Flower, 1794-1808, ed. Timothy Whelan.  Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 2008.

 

 

ARTICLES /BOOK CHAPTERS

 

  1. “Piety and Print: Dissenters and Evangelicals in Eighteenth-Century Book History.” Bunyan Studies 24 (2020): 114-18.

  2. “Maria de Fleury: Baptist Poet and Polemicist, 1780-1792,” in The British Particular Baptists 1638–1910, vol. 5, ed. Michael A. G. Haykin. Springfield MO: Particular Baptist Press, 2019. 251-91.

  3. “Mary Hays and Dissenting Culture, 1770-1810.” The Wordsworth Circle 50 (2019): 318-47.

  4. “Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Joseph Hughes: An Ecumenical Friendship, 1795-1831.” The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 50 (2017): 95-102.

  5. “Coleridge among the Baptists: A Newly Discovered Annotation at the Angus Library, Oxford.” , The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 50 (2017): 85-93. Co-author, James Vigus, Queen Mary University of London.

  6. “Elizabeth Hays and the 1790s Feminist Novel.” The Wordsworth Circle 48.3 (2017): 137-51.

  7. “From Thomas Mullett to Charles Dickens, Jr.: Creating, Sustaining and Expanding a West Country-London Baptist Circle.” Baptist Quarterly 48.2 (2017): 78-100.

  8. “‘No Sanctuary for Philistines’: Baptists and Culture in the Eighteenth Century.” Challenge and Change: English Baptist Life in the Eighteenth Century. Ed. Stephen Copson and Peter J. Morden. London: Baptist Historical Society, 2017. 205-31.

  9. “John Tyler Ryland, 1786-1841: A Postscript with Two Additional Manuscripts.” Baptist Quarterly 47.3 (2016): 120-28.

  10. “Introduction.” The Diary of Andrew Fuller, eds. Michael McMullen and Timothy Whelan. Vol. 1 of the Collected Works of Andrew Fuller, gen. ed. Michael Haykin, Louisville Seminary. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. xi-xliii.

  11. “Timothy Whelan reads ,” by J. C. C. Mays. The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 47 (Summer 2016): 107-21.

  12. Crabb Robinson and Wilhelm Benecke: Questions of Pre-existence and ‘Rational Faith.’” Romanticism and Knowledge. Studies in English Romanticism, ed. Stefanie Fricke, Katharina Pink and Felicitas Meifert. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaflicher Verlag Trier, 2015. 285-92.

  13. “Crabb Robinson and Questions of Pre-Existence and the Afterlife in the 1830s.” The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 46 (2015): 1-16.

  14. “Mary Hays and Henry Crabb Robinson.” The Wordsworth Circle 46.3 (2015): 176-90.

  15. “Mary Steele, Mary Hays and the Convergence of Women’s Literary Circles in the 1790s.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 38.4 (2015): 511-24.

  16. Coleridge, Jonathan Edwards, and the ‘edifice of Fatalism.’” Romanticism 21.3 (2015): 280-300.

  17. “Wilhelm Benecke, Crabb Robinson, and ‘rational faith,” 1819-1837.” Festschrift for Alan Ruston. Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society 26.1 (2015): 51-78.

  18. “Mary Scott, Sarah Froud, and the Steele Literary Circle: A Revealing Annotation to The Female Advocate.” Huntington Library Quarterly 77.4 (2015): 435-52.

  19. “When Kindred Souls Unite”: The Literary Friendship of Mary Steele and Mary Scott, 1766-1793.” Journal of Women's Studies 43 (2014): 619-40.

  20. “Tim Whelan reads Unusual Suspects: Pitt’s Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s,” by Kenneth R. Johnston. The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 43 (Summer 2014): 87-95.

  21. “Crabb Robinson’s Correspondence with Mary Wordsworth.” The Wordsworth Circle 45.1 (Winter 2014): 11-21.

  22. “Nonconformity and Culture.” In Companion to Nonconformity, ed. Robert Pope. Edinburgh; London: T & T Clark, 2013. 329-52.

  23. “Defoe, Daniel (ca 1660-1731)” In Companion to Nonconformity, ed. Robert Pope. Edinburgh; London: T & T Clark, 2013. 585-87.

  24. “Baptist Autographs at the John Rylands University Library, Manchester.” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 89.2 (2013): 203-25.

  25. “An Evangelical Anglican Interaction with Baptist Missionary Society Strategy: William Wilberforce and John Ryland, 1807-1824.” Interfaces: Baptists and Others, ed. David Bebbington and Martin Sutherland. Studies in Baptist History and Thought, vol. 44 (Milton Keynes: Paternoster Press, 2013). 56-85.

  26. “Informal Writings and Literary History: The Case of a Provincial Women’s Literary Circle, 1799-1814.” Informal Romanticism, ed. James Vigus. Studien zur Englischen Romantik, vol. 11 (Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012). 173-88.

  27. “West Country Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840.” The Wordsworth Circle 43 (2012): 44-55.

  28. “George Dyer and Dissenting Culture, 1777-1796.” The Charles Lamb Bulletin, New Series 155 (2012): 9-30.

  29. “William Hazlitt and Radical West Country Dissent.” The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 38 (Winter 2011): 111-27.

  30. “The Godwin and Crabb Robinson Diaries, 1813: A Study in Contrasts.” Bodleian Library Record 24 (2011): 98-104.

  31. “Martha Gurney and the Anti-Slave Trade Movement, 1788-94.” Women, Dissent and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865, ed. Elizabeth J. Clapp and Julie Roy Jeffrey (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011). 44-65.

  32. “Tim Whelan reads William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man,” by Duncan Wu. The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 34 (Winter 2010):69-74.

  33. “S. T. Coleridge, Joseph Cottle, and Some Bristol Baptists, 1794-96.” English Romantic Writers and the West Country, ed. Nick Roe (Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2010). 99-114.

  34. “Radical Politics and Unitarian Piety: The Life and Career of Benjamin Flower, 1755-1829.” Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society 24 (2010): 221-253.

  35. “Robert Hall and the Bristol Slave-Trade Debate of 1787-1788.” The Abolition of Slavery: Debate and Dissension 1787-1840, ed. Susan Trouve (Paris: Armand Colin, 2009). 63-67.

  36. “William Fox, Martha Gurney, and Radical Discourse of the 1790s.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 42 (2009): 397-411.

  37. “Martha Gurney and William Fox: Baptist Printer and Radical Reformer, 1791-94.” In Pulpit and People: Studies in 18th Century Baptist Life and Thought, ed. John Briggs (Milton Keynes: Paternoster Press, 2009). 165-201.

  38. “Tim Whelan reads Joseph Cottle and the Romantics,” by Basil Cottle. The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 32 (2008): 99-106. Reprinted in the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 127 (2009): 329-33.

  39. “A Chronological Calendar of Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1907.” The Baptist Quarterly 42 (2008): 577-612.

  40. “The Religion of Crabb Robinson.” Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society 24 (2008): 112-34.

  41. “‘For the Hand of a Woman, has Levell’d the Blow’: Maria de Fleury's Pamphlet War with William Huntington, 1787-1791.” Journal of Women's Studies 36 (2007): 431-54.

  42. “‘I am the Greatest of the Prophets’: A New Look at Robert Hall's Mental Breakdown, November 1804.” The Baptist Quarterly 42 (2007): 114-126.

  43. “Politics, Religion, and Romance: The Letters of Eliza Gould (1794-1802).” The Wordsworth Circle 36 (2005): 85-109.

  44. “Thomas Poole’s ‘Intimations of Immortality’ in a Letter to John Sheppard, February 1837.” Romanticism 11 (2005): 199-223.

  45. “Joseph Angus and the Use of Autograph Letters in the Library at Holford House, Regent’s Park College, London.” The Baptist Quarterly 40 (2004): 455-76.

  46. “‘I have confessed myself a devil’: Crabb Robinson’s Confrontation with Robert Hall, 1798-1800.” Charles Lamb Bulletin, New Series 121 (2003): 2-25.

  47. “Henry Crabb Robinson and Godwinism.” The Wordsworth Circle 33 (2002): 58-69.

  48. “John Ryland at School:Two Societies in Northampton Boarding Schools.” The Baptist Quarterly 40 (2003):90-116.

  49. “Six Letters of Robert Robinson from Dr. Williams’s Library.” The Baptist Quarterly 39 (2002): 347-59.

  50. “John Foster and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.” Christianity and Literature 50 (2001): 631-56.

  51. “Joseph Cottle the Baptist.” Charles Lamb Bulletin, New Series 111 (2000): 96-108.

  52. “A Glance at the 1795 Catalogue of Books in the Library of the Bristol Baptist Academy and Museum.” The Baptist Quarterly 39 (2001): 35-38.

  53. “Coleridge and Robert Hall of Cambridge.” The Wordsworth Circle 31 (2000): 38-47.

  54. “A Wordsworth Autograph Letter Found in the John Rylands Library at Manchester.” Notes and Queries, New Series 47 (2000): 311-14.

  55. “Robert Hall and the Bristol Slave-Trade Debate of 1787-1788.” The Baptist Quarterly 38 (2000): 212-24.

  56. “‘The Flesh and the Spirit’:Anne Bradstreet and Seventeenth Century Dualism, Materialism, Vitalism and Reformed Theology.” Journal of Ultimate Reality and Meaning 19 (1996): 257-84.

  57. “‘Contemplations’: Anne Bradstreet’s Homage to Calvin and Reformed Theology.” Christianity and Literature 42 (1992):41-68.

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BOOK REVIEWS

 

  1. Review of Textual Transformations: Purposing and Repurposing Books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), by Tessa Whitehouse and N. H. Keeble, in Bunyan Studies 24 (2020): 135-38.

  2. Review of The Coleridge Legacy: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Intellectual Legacy in Britain and America, 1834-1934 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), by Philip Aherne, in The Wordsworth Circle 50.4 (2019): 596-603.

  3. Review of Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830 (Ohio State University Press, 2013), by Jasper Cragwall, in Romanticism 24.2 (2018), 218-20. 

  4. Review of Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 (Ashgate, 2015), by Rachel Adcock, in The Baptist Quarterly 49.2 (2018): 90-91.

  5. Review of Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture, by Jonathan Yeager, in The Library, 7th Series, 18.4 (2017): 509-13.

  6. Review of Wordsworth and the Theology of Poverty (Ashgate, 2014), by Heidi Snow, in Romanticism 23.2 (2017): 200-203.

  7. Review of The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent, 1720-1800 (Oxford, 2015), by Tessa Whitehouse, in The Library, 7th Series, 16.4 (2016): 460-63.

  8. Review of Hazlitt the Dissenter: Religion, Philosophy, and Politics, 1766-1816 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), by Stephen Burley, in The Hazlitt Review 8 (2015): 63-66.

  9. Review of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Anglican Church, by Luke Savin Herrick Wright, in Modern Philology 111.2 (2011): 221-24.

  10. Review of To Express the Ineffable: The Hymns and Spirituality of Anne Steele, by Cynthia Aalders, in The Baptist Quarterly 43.6 (2010): 377-78.

  11. Review of Melville's Protest Theism: The Hidden and Silent God in Clarel, by Stan Goldman, in Christianity and Literature 44 (1995): 400-03.

  12. Review of Sinful Self, Gracious Self, by Jeffrey Hammond, in South Atlantic Review 60 (1995): 198-201.

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