Kathryn R. King

She later had some expertise in medicine, which it seems she may have learned from her brother or some of his Cambridge friends. Biographer Kathryn King concludes that JB had a more than passing acquaintance...

EH may have married in Ireland, while she was there in 1715. She says in letters of the late 1720s that her marriage was unfortunate and brief: her husband died by 1728.

Kathryn King has commented on Barker's remarkable production of a poetry of heterosexual refusal originating in a matrix of cross-gender sociability. She discusses in particular detail the poems on medical themes. She considers A...

Her biographer, Kathryn R. King , gently but firmly demolishes Hayood's claim never to have written anything in a political way. King traces her relations at different times with dissident Whigs, disaffected Tories, crypto-Jacobites...

If, as Kathryn King believes, Barker sent the evidence of her miraculous cure in 1730 to the mother superior who was formerly Lady Lucy, she did so as part of a concerted campaign to get...

The material in the volume was later revised as the third part of the Magdalen Manuscript. The publisher advertised the volume in December 1687, using JB 's name. This is the only instance of his...

This magazine has a second supposed author: the parrot, who is male. This creature, born in Java, has seen the world, since its long life has been spent with fifty-five different families successively. Though not...

Kathryn King points out that JB made countless verbal adjustments in the interest of economy, precision, and focus, besides adding some poems and revising others, between the edition of 1713 and that of 1719 (in...

The title-page (followed by Carol Shiner Wilson 's editiion) says 1715. Such post-dating, says Kathryn King , is typical of Curll 's publishing practices.Exilius was at least partly written by 1687...

Complete or near-complete texts of her works became available on CD-ROM before digitization reaching the web in Women Writers Online and ECCO. Carol Shiner Wilson 's selection, 1997, provided a teaching text of her...

Most of her extant manuscripts are at the British Library and at Magdalen College , Oxford. Just a few which are more widely scattered (one among the family papers of Jacobite diarist Mary Caesar

It is dedicated to the Countess of Exeter , with a subsidiary address to the gentry of Lincolnshire. Barker's Entertaining Novels, six years later, includes a revised version in its second volume, and Barker...

Scholar Kathryn King argues that JB 's career as a marketplace novelist (which began just two weeks after Queen Anne died) was undertaken with Jacobite purpose, and that her realistic, often domestic stories are...