Jane Spencer

Standard Name: Spencer, Jane

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Aphra Behn
Behn's death, this elegy says, is a disaster for women's writing, for no other woman dares her Laurel wear.
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press.
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For a while it remained possible for women writers like Jane Barker to claim descent...
Literary responses Mary Pix
Jane Spencer points out that modern criticism has not been appreciative of MP : Jacqueline Pearson has said that she deals in conventional male stereotypes and gives women no more air time than do male...

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Texts

Spencer, Jane. Aphra Behn’s Afterlife. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Spencer, Jane. “Drama”. The History of British Women’s Writing, 1690-1750, edited by Ros Ballaster, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 145-55.
Inchbald, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. A Simple Story, edited by Jane Spencer and Joyce Marjorie Sanxter Tompkins, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. vii - xxxiii.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 1, pp. 43-57.
Spencer, Jane. The Rise of the Woman Novelist. Blackwell, 1986.
Spencer, Jane. “The Sons of Behn”. Women and Literary History Conference, Edmonton, AB.