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. Editor Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, Oxford University Press, 1996.
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The anonymous author of Ester Hath Hang'd Haman belittled...