Jennifer Speake Explained

Jennifer Speake
Birth Name:	Jennifer Drake-Brockman
Birth Place:	Toronto, Canada
Occupation:	Writer
Citizenship:	Canadian, British
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Spouse:	Graham Speake
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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 Toronto in 1944. 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] She has an MA and BPhil.

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 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

• Drake-Brockman . Jennifer . Turner . A. J. . 1974 . An emblematic watch by Gribelin . Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance . 36 . 1 . 143–150 . 20675174 . 0006-1999.
• Book: Rudrum . Alan . Drake-Brockman . Jennifer . The works of Thomas Vaughan . 1984 . Clarendon Press . 0-19-812473-2 . Oxford [Oxfordshire] . 9281738. ^[7]
• Book: Speake, Jennifer . Biblical quotations . Facts on File Inc . 1983 . 9780871962416 . New York . 9217946. ^[8]
• Book: The Concise Oxford dictionary of proverbs . 1992 . Oxford University Press . Simpson . John . Jennifer . Speake . John Simpson (lexicographer) . 0-19-866177-0 . 2nd . Oxford . 24872450. ^[9]
• Book: Speake, Jennifer . Literature of travel and exploration : an encyclopedia . 2003 . Fitzroy Dearborn . 1-57958-247-8 . New York . 55631133. ^[10]
• Book: Simpson . J.A.. . The Oxford dictionary of proverbs . Speake . Jennifer . 2003 . Oxford University Press . 0-19-860524-2 . Oxford . 52696399. ^[11]
• Book: Bergin . Thomas Goddard . Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation . 2004 . Facts On File . Jennifer . Speake . 0-8160-5451-7 . New York . 53880313. ^{[12] [13]}

Personal life

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

Notes and References

1. News: Marriages . The Times . 24 September 1971 . 14 .
2. Wolfgang . Mieder . Wolfgang Mieder . The Word [and Phrase] Detective: A Proverbial Tribute to OED Editor John Simpson ]. Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship . 35 . 1 . 2018 . 227 .
3. Speake . Jennifer . 2004 . Vaughan, Thomas (1621–1666), hermetic philosopher and alchemist . 2022-10-21 . en . 10.1093/ref:odnb/28148. 978-0-19-861412-8 .
4. Outstanding Reference Sources: The 2004 Selection on Recent Titles . Reference & User Services Quarterly . 43 . 3 . Spring 2004 . 215–216 . 20864201 . Committee . Rusa Codes Reference Sources .
5. Abigail F. . Ellsworth Ross . Review: Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia by Jennifer Speake . Reference & User Services Quarterly . 43 . 3 . Spring 2004 . 267–268 . 20864220 .
6. Stacy . Burton . Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia by Jennifer Speake . Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment . 11 . 2 . Summer 2004 . 279–280 . 10.1093/isle/11.2.279 . 44086328 .
7. Reviews for The works of Thomas Vaughan
   • Ormsby-Lennon . Hugh . 1986 . Review of The Works of Thomas Vaughan . Isis . 77 . 1 . 195–196 . 10.1086/354122 . 232585 . 0021-1753.
8. Reviews for Biblical Quotations
   • Kreissman . Bernard . 1984 . Review of America the Quotable; Biblical Quotations . RQ . 24 . 1 . 98–99 . 25827290 . 0033-7072.
9. 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 . 1260817 . 0015-587X.
10. 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 . 10.1093/isle/11.2.279 . 44086328 . 1076-0962.
    • Ross . Abigail F. Ellsworth . 2004 . Review of Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia . Reference & User Services Quarterly . 43 . 3 . 267–268 . 20864220 . 1094-9054.
11. Reviews for The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
    • Simpson . Jacqueline . 2005 . Review of Proverbs: A Handbook; The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs . Folklore . 116 . 3 . 353 . 30035310 . 0015-587X.
    • 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 . en . 20 . 4 . 61–64 . 10.1017/S0266078404004122 . 145769219 . 0266-0784.
    • News: Cordry . Harold . October 15, 2004 . The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs . 101 . 438 . The Booklist; Chicago . 4 . ProQuest.
    • News: 2003-12-07 . Simply the last word in dictionaries . 52 . Sunday Telegraph . 2022-10-21.
12. 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 . 10.2307/2541028 . 2541028 . 0361-0160.
    • D'Elia . Anthony F. . 2006 . Review of Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation . International Journal of the Classical Tradition . 12 . 4 . 621–624 . 30222093 . 1073-0508.
13. Woolf . D. R. . Daniel Woolf . Winter 1988 . Review: The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, by Thomas G. Bergin and Jennifer Speake . The Sixteenth Century Journal . 19 . 4 . 702–703. 10.2307/2541028 . 2541028 .
14. News: 13 February 2016 . How one man came to love the mountain that also captivated the Prince of Wales . Banbury Guardian .