Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Here she practised medicine; a book printed by Benjamin Crayle
, her first publisher, advertises Dr Barker's Famous Gout Plaister.
King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, No. 3, 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...