Jennifer Speake

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Jennifer Speake
BornJennifer Drake-Brockman
1944 (age 79–80)
Toronto, Canada
OccupationWriter
CitizenshipCanadian, British
SpouseGraham Speake

Jennifer Speake, née Drake-Brockman (born 1944, Toronto) is a Canadian-British freelance writer and editor of reference books.

Life

Jennifer Anne Speake was born in

better source needed] She has an MA and BPhil.[citation needed
]

Career

Working 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

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


Personal life

In the 1970s she married Graham Speake,[1] an English classicist and academic publisher.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b "Marriages". The Times. 24 September 1971. p. 14.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 2022-10-21. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
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  7. ^ Reviews for The works of Thomas Vaughan
  8. ^ Reviews for Biblical Quotations
  9. ^ Reviews for The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
  10. ^ Reviews for Literature of Travel and Exploration
  11. ^ Reviews for The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
  12. ^ Reviews for Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation
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  14. ^ "How one man came to love the mountain that also captivated the Prince of Wales". Banbury Guardian. 13 February 2016.