Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.
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James Speght
Standard Name: Speght, James
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Rachel Speght | RS
's father
, recently widowed, married again. His new wife was a widow named Elizabeth Smith, the mother of two children. Speight, Helen. “Rachel Speght’s Polemical Life”. Huntington Library Quarterly, No. 3/4, pp. 449 - 63. 454 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Rachel Speght | RS
's father, James Speght
(sometimes confused with the Chaucerian scholar Thomas Speght
), was a Cambridge graduate, himself a scholar, and was already, at thirty-three, Anglican rector of a parish in the City of... |
| Literary responses | Rachel Speght | Some contemporary readers thought this work beyond the powers of a young woman, and therefore attributed it not to RS
but to her father
. Speght, Rachel. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght. Lewalski, Barbara KieferEditor , Oxford University Press, 1996. 45 |
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