Secondary Sources for Anne Dutton and her Bibliography

A. D. [Anne Dutton]. A Brief Account of the Gracious Dealings of God, with a Poor, Sinful, Unworthy Creature, in Three Parts. London: printed by J. Hart in Popping’s-Court, Fleet-Street. and sold by J. Lewis, in Pater-Noster-Row, near Cheapside, 1750. In Part III, Dutton provides a lengthy discussion of her writing career, listing 33 titles completed for publication prior to 1750. These titles are denoted below in the Bibliography.

[Anne Dutton.] Letters on Spiritual Subjects, and Divers Occasions: Sent to Relations and Friends. By Mrs. Anne Dutton, Prepared for the Press by the Author, before her death, and now Published at her Desire; to which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Dealings of God with her, in her last Sickness. London: Printed for G. Keith, in Gracechurch-Street, MDCCLXIX [1769]. 2 vols. Volume 1 includes George Keith's important list of 38 publications by Dutton, a list that was used for Dutton's monument in the Great Gransden Baptist Church and later by Whitebrook. Keith's list, though incomplete, is nevertheless quite valuable. It is divided into two parts: Nos. 1-26 fall under the heading, “Books and Tracts written by Mrs. Anne Dutton, and sold by Geo. Keith in Gracechurch-street.”  Nos. 27-38 appear under the heading, “Books printed for G. Keith.” 

Haykin, Michael A. G. “Anne Dutton and Calvinistic Spirituality in the Eighteenth Century,” The Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth (July/August 2002), 156-57. 

Karega-Mason, Joilynn. “Anne Dutton: Eighteenth-century Calvinist Theologian,” M.A. thesis, University of Louisville, 2008.

MacHaffie, Barbara J.  Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986), 84-85.

McIntyre, Willard Ezra, ed. Baptist Authors: A Manual of Bibliography, 1500-1914 (Montreal: Industrial and Educational Press, [1914]).  

Roberts, Wendy Raphael. Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020), 60-68.

Robinson, H. Wheeler. The Life and Faith of the Baptists, rev. ed. (London: Kingsgate Press, 1946; orig. ed., 1927), 52-60.

Sciretti, Michael D. “Feed My Lambs”: The Spiritual Direction Ministry of Calvinistic British Baptist Anne Dutton During the Early Years of the Evangelical Revival. Ph.D. Diss., Baylor Univ., 2009.

Shaw, Jane. “Religious Love,” in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1690-1750, ed. Ros Ballaster (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 192-93.

Starr, Edward Caryll, ed. A Baptist Bibliography: Being a Register of Printed Material by and About Baptists; Including Works Written Against the Baptists,  25 vols (Rochester, NY: American Baptist Historical Society, 1947-76). Entries for Anne Dutton appear in vol. 6, pp. 200-04. 

Stein, Stephen. “Note on Anne Dutton, Eighteenth-Century Evangelical,” Church History 44.4 (December 1975), 485-491. 

Watson, JoAnn Ford. “Anne Dutton: An Eighteenth Century British Evangelical Woman Writer,” Ashland Theological Journal 30 (1998), 51-56.

Watson, JoAnn Ford. Selected Spiritual Writings of Anne Dutton: Eighteenth-century, British-Baptist, Woman Theologian. 6 vols (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2003-15).

Whelan, Timothy. “Anne Dutton and Church Books: The Importance of Manuscript Sources in Reconstructing the Lives of Eighteenth-Century Baptist Women,” The Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies 8.2 (Spring 2024), 9-25. 

Whelan, Timothy. “The Lispings of a Babe”? Anne Dutton’s Publishing History and Literary Legacy,” Women’s Writing 31.4 (2024), 623-40.

Whelan, Timothy. “Six Letters of Robert Robinson from Dr. Williams’s Library, London,” Baptist Quarterly 39 (2001-2002), 355-356. 

Whitebrook, John Cudworth, “A Bibliography of Mrs. Anne Dutton,” Notes and Queries (December 1916), 471-73. 

Whitebrook, John Cudworth, “The Life and Works of Mrs. Ann Dutton,” Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society 7 (1921), 129-46. 

Whitebrook, John Cudworth, Ann Dutton: A Life and Bibliography (London: A. W. Cannon & Co, [1921]). 

Whitley, W. T. [William Thomas], ed. A Baptist Bibliography, 2 vols (London: The Kingsgate Press, 4 Southampton Row, 1916-22). 

Whitley, W. T. A History of British Baptists (London: Kingsgate, 1932), 214–15.

Xu, Huafang. “Anne Dutton 1692-1765,” in The British Particular Baptists 1638-1910, vol. 4, ed. Michael A. G. Haykin and Terry Wolever (Springfield, MO: Particular Baptists Press, 2018), 104-25. 

Xu, Huafang. “Communion with God and Comfortable Dependence on Him: Anne Dutton’s Trinitarian Spirituality,” Ph.D. diss., Southern Seminary, Louisville, 2018. 

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