Jennifer Speake
Jennifer Speake | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jennifer Drake-Brockman 1944 Toronto, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Citizenship | Canadian, British |
| 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[edit]
Jennifer Anne Speake was born in Toronto in 1944.[1] 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.[2] She has an MA and BPhil. In the 1970s she married Graham Speake,[2] an English classicist and academic publisher.[3]
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.[4]
Speake's three-volume 2003 encyclopedia of travel literature received a 2004 Reference and User Services Association award.[5] 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".[6] 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."[7]
Works[edit]
- (as Jennifer Drake-Brockman, with Anthony John Turner) 'An emblematic watch by Gribelin'. Bibliothèque d'humanisme et renaissance, vol. 36 (1974), pp. 143–150
- (ed., with Antony Flew as editorial consultant) A dictionary of philosophy. London: Macmillan, 1979. ISBN 9789070009335 Search this book on
.. - (as Jennifer Drake-Brockman, assistant ed. to Alan Rudrum) The works of Thomas Vaughan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.
- (general ed., with Thomas Goddard Bergin as consultant editor) Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File Publications, 1987. ISBN 9780816013159 Search this book on ..[8]
- (ed. with J. A. Simpson) The Concise Oxford dictionary of proverbs.
- 2nd ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 9780192800022 Search this book on .
- 3rd ed. (1998)
- 4th ed. (with Speake as sole editor), as The Oxford dictionary of proverbs, 2003.[9][10]
- 6th ed., 2015.
- 2nd ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 9780192800022 Search this book on
- (ed.) The Hutchinson dictionary of world history. Oxford: Helicon, 1993.
- (ed.) The Dent dictionary of symbols in Christian art. London: J.M. Dent, 1994.
- (as Jennifer Drake-Brockman) 'The Perpetuum Mobile of Cornelis Drebbel', in W.D. Hackmann and A. J. Turner, eds., Learning , Language and Invention: Essays Presented to Francis Maddison. Aldershot, 1994.
- (ed.) The Oxford dictionary of foreign words and phrases. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
- (ed. with Mark LaFlaur) The Oxford essential dictionary of foreign terms in English: American edition. New York: Berkley Books, 1999. Published in mass market paperback by arrangement with Oxford University Press.
- (ed.) The Oxford dictionary of idioms. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- (ed.) Literature of travel and exploration: an encyclopedia. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003.
- (ed. with Thomas G. Bergin) Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Facts on File, 2004. ISBN 0816054517 Search this book on .
References[edit]
- ↑ "Major Guy Percy Lumsden Drake-Brockman DSO MC Canadian Army". Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Marriages". The Times. 24 September 1971. p. 14.
- ↑ "How one man came to love the mountain that also captivated the Prince of Wales". Banbury Guardian. 13 February 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Outstanding Reference Sources: The 2004 Selection on Recent Titles". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 43 (3): 215–216. Spring 2004. 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. JSTOR 44086328.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Allen, Robert (October 2004). "Is the devil in the details? Jennifer Speake (ed.), 2003, The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Oxford University Press". English Today. 20 (4): 61–64. doi:10.1017/S0266078404004122.
- ↑ Duckett, Bob (2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (4th edition". Reference Reviews. 18 (2): 41–42. doi:10.1108/09504120410521088.
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