Judith Drake

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Standard Name: Drake, Judith
Birth Name: Judith
Married Name: Judith Drake
JD is a shadowy figure, but seems to have been responsible, or partly responsible, for two remarkable works of different kinds: a feminist essay, 1696, and editing her husband's major scientific text, 1707.
Frontispiece of Judith Drake's anonymous "An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex", 1696, reflecting the text's satirical attitude towards different types of men.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Astell
Among those directly influenced by this work were Judith Drake , Elizabeth Thomas , Mary, Lady Chudleigh , and Elizabeth Elstob .
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
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George Berkeley 's use of long passages from this text, unattributed, in...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Astell
MA influenced a whole generation of writing women: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Mary Chudleigh , Elizabeth Thomas , Judith Drake , Damaris Masham (although Masham's opinions were markedly different), Elizabeth Elstob , and Jane Barker
Occupation Jane Barker
Here she practised medicine; a book printed by Benjamin Crayle , her first publisher, advertises Dr Barker's Famous Gout Plaister.
qtd. in
King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
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, No. 3, Nov. 1997, pp. 16-38.
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Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. xv - xliv.
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Actually prescribing medication, as Barker writes that she did, was for a...

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Texts

Drake, Judith. A Farther Essay Relating to the Female-Sex. A. Roper and E. Wilkinson, 1696.
Drake, Judith. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. A. Roper, E. Wilkinson, and R. Clavel, 1696, http://U of A, Special Collections.
Drake, James. Anthropologia Nova. Editor Drake, Judith, Smith and Walford, 1707, 2 vols.
Drake, Judith, and Sir Hans Sloane. Letter to Sir Hans Sloane, 1 September 1723. http://British Library Manuscripts MS Sloane 4047.f38-9, British Library, London.