Jennifer Speake, née Drake-Brockman (born 1944, Toronto) is a Canadian-British freelance writer and editor of reference books.
Jennifer Speake | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jennifer Drake-Brockman 1944 (age 79–80) Toronto, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Citizenship | Canadian, British |
| Spouse | Graham Speake |
Life
editJennifer Anne Speake was born in Toronto in 1944.[citation needed] She was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Percy Lumsden Drake-Brockman and Vera Mary McLeod Harrison Topham, later of Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.[1][better source needed] She has an MA and BPhil.[citation needed]
Career
editWorking at Oxford University Press, Speake helped OED editor John Simpson bring out a second edition of his Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, and a third edition in 1998. She became sole editor for the fourth (2003) and subsequent editions.[2] Speake's other work included a biography of Thomas Vaughan, a philosopher from Wales.[3]
Speake's three-volume 2003 encyclopedia of travel literature received a 2004 Reference and User Services Association award.[4] One reviewer called it "an amazing collection of those people, famous, not-so-famous, and infamous alike, who have traveled the world over, with long lists of additional books for the travel narrative lover".[5] Another reviewer, while noting inconsistency in its coverage, praised it as providing "an unusually rich entrée into an immense field that crosses cultural, historical and discipinary boundaries."[6]
Selected publications
edit- Drake-Brockman, Jennifer; Turner, A. J. (1974). "An emblematic watch by Gribelin". Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance. 36 (1): 143–150. ISSN 0006-1999. JSTOR 20675174.
- Rudrum, Alan; Drake-Brockman, Jennifer (1984). The works of Thomas Vaughan. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-812473-2. OCLC 9281738.[7]
- Speake, Jennifer (1983). Biblical quotations. New York: Facts on File Inc. ISBN 9780871962416. OCLC 9217946.[8]
- Simpson, John; Speake, Jennifer, eds. (1992). The Concise Oxford dictionary of proverbs (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866177-0. OCLC 24872450.[9]
- Speake, Jennifer (2003). Literature of travel and exploration : an encyclopedia. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 1-57958-247-8. OCLC 55631133.[10]
- Simpson, J.A..; Speake, Jennifer (2003). The Oxford dictionary of proverbs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860524-2. OCLC 52696399.[11]
- Bergin, Thomas Goddard; Speake, Jennifer (2004). Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation. New York: Facts On File. ISBN 0-8160-5451-7. OCLC 53880313.[12][13]
Personal life
editIn the 1970s she married Graham Speake,[1] an English classicist and academic publisher.[14]
References
edit- ^ a b "Marriages". The Times. 24 September 1971. p. 14.
- ^ Mieder, Wolfgang (2018). "The Word [and Phrase] Detective: A Proverbial Tribute to OED Editor John Simpson" (PDF). Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship. 35 (1): 227.
- ^ Speake, Jennifer (2004). "Vaughan, Thomas (1621–1666), hermetic philosopher and alchemist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28148. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 2022-10-21. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Committee, Rusa Codes Reference Sources (Spring 2004). "Outstanding Reference Sources: The 2004 Selection on Recent Titles". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 43 (3): 215–216. JSTOR 20864201.
- ^ Ellsworth Ross, Abigail F. (Spring 2004). "Review: Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia by Jennifer Speake". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 43 (3): 267–268. JSTOR 20864220.
- ^ Burton, Stacy (Summer 2004). "Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia by Jennifer Speake". Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 11 (2): 279–280. doi:10.1093/isle/11.2.279. JSTOR 44086328.
- ^ Reviews for The works of Thomas Vaughan
- Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh (1986). "Review of The Works of Thomas Vaughan". Isis. 77 (1): 195–196. doi:10.1086/354122. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 232585.
- ^ Reviews for Biblical Quotations
- Kreissman, Bernard (1984). "Review of America the Quotable; Biblical Quotations". RQ. 24 (1): 98–99. ISSN 0033-7072. JSTOR 25827290.
- ^ Reviews for The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
- Jones, Malcolm (1993). "Review of International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography. Supplement I (1800-1981); The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs; A Dictionary of American Proverbs, Wolfgang Mieder". Folklore. 104 (1/2): 182–183. ISSN 0015-587X. JSTOR 1260817.
- ^ Reviews for Literature of Travel and Exploration
- Burton, Stacy (2004). "Review of Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia". Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 11 (2): 279–280. doi:10.1093/isle/11.2.279. ISSN 1076-0962. JSTOR 44086328.
- Ross, Abigail F. Ellsworth (2004). "Review of Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 43 (3): 267–268. ISSN 1094-9054. JSTOR 20864220.
- ^ Reviews for The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
- Simpson, Jacqueline (2005). "Review of Proverbs: A Handbook; The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs". Folklore. 116 (3): 353. ISSN 0015-587X. JSTOR 30035310.
- Allen, Robert (2004). "Is the devil in the details? Jennifer Speake (ed.), 2003, The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs , Oxford University Press (pp.xiv + 375. hb 0-19-860524-2)". English Today. 20 (4): 61–64. doi:10.1017/S0266078404004122. ISSN 0266-0784. S2CID 145769219.
- Cordry, Harold (October 15, 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs". The Booklist; Chicago. Vol. 101, no. 4. p. 438 – via ProQuest.
- "Simply the last word in dictionaries". Sunday Telegraph. 2003-12-07. p. 52. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
- ^ Reviews for Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation
- Woolf, D. R. (1988). "Review of The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 19 (4): 702–703. doi:10.2307/2541028. ISSN 0361-0160. JSTOR 2541028.
- D'Elia, Anthony F. (2006). "Review of Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation". International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 12 (4): 621–624. ISSN 1073-0508. JSTOR 30222093.
- ^ Woolf, D. R. (Winter 1988). "Review: The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, by Thomas G. Bergin and Jennifer Speake". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 19 (4): 702–703. doi:10.2307/2541028. JSTOR 2541028.
- ^ "How one man came to love the mountain that also captivated the Prince of Wales". Banbury Guardian. 13 February 2016.