These selections below are taken from Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 8, pp. 43-51; 54-60; and 73-74. The surviving manuscript volumes of Anne Cator Steele’s diary (13 July 1730-36), (1749-52), and (1753-27 June 1760), can be found in the Steele Collection, STE 2/1/1, STE 2/1/2, and STE 2/1/3, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford. 

For a biographical sketch of the life of Anne Cator Steele, click here; selections from her hymns, click here; for selections from her poetry, click here; for selections from her prose meditations, click here; for selections from her letters, click here.