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'''Jennifer Speake''', ''née'' '''Drake-Brockman''' (born 1944, [[Toronto]]) is a Canadian-British freelance writer and editor of reference books.
'''Jennifer Speake''', ''née'' '''Drake-Brockman''' (born 1944, [[Toronto]]) is a Canadian-British freelance writer and editor of reference books.


==Life==
==Life==
Jennifer Anne Speake was born in [[Toronto]] in 1944.<ref>{{cite web | title=Major Guy Percy Lumsden Drake-Brockman DSO MC Canadian Army | url=http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=26681 | access-date=2 August 2022}}</ref> She was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Percy Lumsden Drake-Brockman and Vera Mary McLeod Harrison Topham, later of [[Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal]] in [[South Africa]].<ref name=Times>{{cite news | title=Marriages | newspaper=The Times | date=24 September 1971 | page=14 }}</ref> She has an MA and BPhil. In the 1970s she married [[Graham Speake]],<ref name=Times/> an English classicist and academic publisher.<ref>{{cite news | title=How one man came to love the mountain that also captivated the Prince of Wales | newspaper=Banbury Guardian | date=13 February 2016 | url=https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/how-one-man-came-love-mountain-also-captivated-prince-wales-798964 }}</ref>
Jennifer Anne Speake was born in [[Toronto]] in 1944.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}} She was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Percy Lumsden Drake-Brockman and Vera Mary McLeod Harrison Topham, later of [[Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal]] in [[South Africa]].<ref name=Times>{{cite news | title=Marriages | newspaper=The Times | date=24 September 1971 | page=14 }}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=October 2022}} She has an MA and BPhil.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}


== Career ==
Working at [[Oxford University Press]], Speake helped ''[[Oxford English Dictionary|OED]]'' editor [[John Simpson (lexicographer)|John Simpson]] bring out a second edition of his ''Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs'', and a third edition in 1998. She became sole editor for the fourth (2003) and subsequent editions.<ref>{{cite journal | first=Wolfgang | last=Mieder | author-link=Wolfgang Mieder | title=The Word [and Phrase] Detective: A Proverbial Tribute to OED Editor John Simpson | journal=Proverbium | volume=35 | year=2018 | page=227 | url=https://johnsimpsondotorg.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/proverbium.pdf }}</ref>
Working at [[Oxford University Press]], Speake helped ''[[Oxford English Dictionary|OED]]'' editor [[John Simpson (lexicographer)|John Simpson]] bring out a second edition of his ''Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs'', and a third edition in 1998. She became sole editor for the fourth (2003) and subsequent editions.<ref>{{cite journal | first=Wolfgang | last=Mieder | author-link=Wolfgang Mieder | title=The Word [and Phrase] Detective: A Proverbial Tribute to OED Editor John Simpson | journal=Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship | volume=35 | issue=1 | year=2018 | page=227 | url=https://johnsimpsondotorg.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/proverbium.pdf }}</ref> Speake's other work included a biography of [[Thomas Vaughan (philosopher)|Thomas Vaughan]], a philosopher from Wales.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |last=Speake |first=Jennifer |date=2004 |title=Vaughan, Thomas (1621–1666), hermetic philosopher and alchemist |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-28148 |access-date=2022-10-21 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/28148|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref>


Speake's three-volume 2003 encyclopedia of [[travel literature]] received a 2004 [[Reference and User Services Association award]].<ref>{{cite journal | title=Outstanding Reference Sources: The 2004 Selection on Recent Titles | journal=Reference & User Services Quarterly | volume=43 | issue=3 | date=Spring 2004 | pages=215–216 | jstor= 20864201 | last1=Committee | first1=Rusa Codes Reference Sources }}</ref> One reviewer called it "an amazing collection of those people, famous, not-so-famous, and infamous alike, who have traveled the world over, with long lists of additional books for the travel narrative lover".<ref>{{cite journal | first=Abigail F. | last=Ellsworth Ross | title=Review: ''Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia'' by Jennifer Speake | journal=Reference & User Services Quarterly | volume=43 | issue=3 | date=Spring 2004 | pages=267–268 | jstor=20864220 }}</ref> Another reviewer, while noting inconsistency in its coverage, praised it as providing "an unusually rich entrée into an immense field that crosses cultural, historical and discipinary boundaries."<ref>{{cite journal | first=Stacy | last=Burton | title=''Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia'' by Jennifer Speake | journal=Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment | volume=11 | issue=2 | date=Summer 2004 | pages=279–280 | doi=10.1093/isle/11.2.279 | jstor=44086328 }}</ref>
==Works==

* (as Jennifer Drake-Brockman, with Anthony John Turner) 'An emblematic watch by Gribelin'. ''Bibliothèque d'humanisme et renaissance'', vol. 36 (1974), pp.143-150
==Selected publications==
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* (ed., with [[Antony Flew]] as editorial consultant) ''A dictionary of philosophy''. London: Macmillan, 1979. ISBN 9789070009335.
* {{Cite journal |last1=Drake-Brockman |first1=Jennifer |last2=Turner |first2=A. J. |date=1974 |title=An emblematic watch by Gribelin |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20675174 |journal=Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=143–150 |jstor=20675174 |issn=0006-1999}}
* (as Jennifer Drake-Brockman, assistant ed. to Alan Rudrum) ''The works of Thomas Vaughan''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.
* {{Cite book |last1=Rudrum |first1=Alan |last2=Drake-Brockman |first2=Jennifer |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9281738 |title=The works of Thomas Vaughan |date=1984 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=0-19-812473-2 |location=Oxford [Oxfordshire] |oclc=9281738}}<ref>Reviews for ''The works of Thomas Vaughan''
* (general ed., with [[Thomas Goddard Bergin]] as consultant editor) ''Encyclopedia of the Renaissance''. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File Publications, 1987. ISBN 9780816013159.
* {{Cite journal |last=Ormsby-Lennon |first=Hugh |date=1986 |title=Review of The Works of Thomas Vaughan |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/232585 |journal=Isis |volume=77 |issue=1 |pages=195–196 |doi=10.1086/354122 |jstor=232585 |issn=0021-1753}}</ref>
* (ed. with [[John Simpson (lexicographer)|J. A. Simpson]]) ''The Concise Oxford dictionary of proverbs''. 2nd ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 9780192800022. 3rd ed. (1998); 4th ed. (with Speake as sole editor), 2003. 6th ed., 2015.
*{{Cite book |last=Speake |first=Jennifer |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9217946 |title=Biblical quotations |publisher=Facts on File Inc |year=1983 |isbn=9780871962416 |location=New York |oclc=9217946}}<ref>Reviews for ''Biblical Quotations''
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* (ed.) ''The Hutchinson dictionary of world history''. Oxford: Helicon, 1993.
* {{Cite journal |last=Kreissman |first=Bernard |date=1984 |title=Review of America the Quotable; Biblical Quotations |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25827290 |journal=RQ |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=98–99 |jstor=25827290 |issn=0033-7072}}</ref>
*{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24872450 |title=The Concise Oxford dictionary of proverbs |date=1992 |publisher=Oxford University Press |editor-last1=Simpson |editor-first1=John |editor-first2=Jennifer |editor-last2=Speake |editor-link1=John Simpson (lexicographer) |isbn=0-19-866177-0 |edition=2nd |location=Oxford |oclc=24872450}}<ref>Reviews for ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs''
* {{Cite journal |last=Jones |first=Malcolm |date=1993 |title=Review of International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography. Supplement I (1800-1981); The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs; A Dictionary of American Proverbs, Wolfgang Mieder |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1260817 |journal=Folklore |volume=104 |issue=1/2 |pages=182–183 |jstor=1260817 |issn=0015-587X}}</ref>
*{{Cite book |last=Speake |first=Jennifer |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55631133 |title=Literature of travel and exploration : an encyclopedia |date=2003 |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |isbn=1-57958-247-8 |location=New York |oclc=55631133}}<ref>Reviews for ''Literature of Travel and Exploration''
*{{Cite journal |last=Burton |first=Stacy |date=2004 |title=Review of Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44086328 |journal=Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=279–280 |doi=10.1093/isle/11.2.279 |jstor=44086328 |issn=1076-0962}}
*{{Cite journal |last=Ross |first=Abigail F. Ellsworth |date=2004 |title=Review of Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20864220 |journal=Reference & User Services Quarterly |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=267–268 |jstor=20864220 |issn=1094-9054}}</ref>
*{{Cite book |last1=Simpson |first1=J.A.. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52696399 |title=The Oxford dictionary of proverbs |last2=Speake |first2=Jennifer |date=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-860524-2 |edition= |location=Oxford |oclc=52696399}}<ref>Reviews for ''The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs''
*{{Cite journal |last=Simpson |first=Jacqueline |date=2005 |title=Review of Proverbs: A Handbook; The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30035310 |journal=Folklore |volume=116 |issue=3 |pages=353 |jstor=30035310 |issn=0015-587X}}
*{{Cite journal |last=Allen |first=Robert |date=2004 |title=Is the devil in the details? Jennifer Speake (ed.), 2003, The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs , Oxford University Press (pp.xiv + 375. hb 0-19-860524-2) |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0266078404004122/type/journal_article |journal=English Today |language=en |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=61–64 |doi=10.1017/S0266078404004122 |s2cid=145769219 |issn=0266-0784}}
*{{Cite news |last=Cordry |first=Harold |date=October 15, 2004 |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs |volume=101 |pages=438 |work=The Booklist; Chicago |issue=4 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
*{{Cite news |date=2003-12-07 |title=Simply the last word in dictionaries |pages=52 |work=Sunday Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111715017/simply-the-last-word-in-dictionaries/ |access-date=2022-10-21}}</ref>
* {{Cite book |last1=Bergin |first1=Thomas Goddard |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53880313 |title=Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation |date=2004 |publisher=Facts On File |first2=Jennifer |last2=Speake |isbn=0-8160-5451-7 |edition= |location=New York |oclc=53880313}}<ref>Reviews for ''Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation''
* {{Cite journal |last=Woolf |first=D. R. |date=1988 |title=Review of The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2541028 |journal=The Sixteenth Century Journal |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=702–703 |doi=10.2307/2541028 |jstor=2541028 |issn=0361-0160}}
* {{Cite journal |last=D'Elia |first=Anthony F. |date=2006 |title=Review of Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30222093 |journal=International Journal of the Classical Tradition |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=621–624 |jstor=30222093 |issn=1073-0508}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Woolf |first=D. R. |author-link=Daniel Woolf |date=Winter 1988 |title=Review: ''The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance'', by Thomas G. Bergin and Jennifer Speake |journal=The Sixteenth Century Journal |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=702–703|doi=10.2307/2541028 |jstor=2541028 }}</ref>

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* (ed., with [[Antony Flew]] as editorial consultant) ''A dictionary of philosophy''. London: Macmillan, 1979. {{isbn|9789070009335}}.
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*(ed.) ''The Hutchinson dictionary of world history''. Oxford: Helicon, 1993.
* (ed.) ''The Dent dictionary of symbols in Christian art''. London: J.M. Dent, 1994.
* (ed.) ''The Dent dictionary of symbols in Christian art''. London: J.M. Dent, 1994.
* (as Jennifer Drake-Brockman) 'The Perpetuum Mobile of Cornelis Drebbel', in W.D. Hackmann and A. J. Turner, eds., ''Learning , Language and Invention: Essays Presented to Francis Maddison''. Aldershot, 1994.
* (as Jennifer Drake-Brockman) 'The Perpetuum Mobile of Cornelis Drebbel', in W.D. Hackmann and A. J. Turner, eds., ''Learning , Language and Invention: Essays Presented to Francis Maddison''. Aldershot, 1994.
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* (ed. with Mark LaFlaur) ''The Oxford essential dictionary of foreign terms in English: American edition''. New York: Berkley Books, 1999. Published in mass market paperback by arrangement with Oxford University Press.
* (ed. with Mark LaFlaur) ''The Oxford essential dictionary of foreign terms in English: American edition''. New York: Berkley Books, 1999. Published in mass market paperback by arrangement with Oxford University Press.
* (ed.) ''The Oxford dictionary of idioms''. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
* (ed.) ''The Oxford dictionary of idioms''. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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* (ed.) ''Literature of travel and exploration: an encyclopedia''. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003.

* (ed. with Thomas G. Bergin) ''Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation.'' Facts on File, 2004. {{ISBN|0816054517}}
== Personal life ==
In the 1970s she married [[Graham Speake]],<ref name="Times" /> an English classicist and academic publisher.<ref>{{cite news |date=13 February 2016 |title=How one man came to love the mountain that also captivated the Prince of Wales |newspaper=Banbury Guardian |url=https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/how-one-man-came-love-mountain-also-captivated-prince-wales-798964}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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Jennifer Speake
BornJennifer Drake-Brockman
1944 (age 79–80)
Toronto, Canada
OccupationWriter
CitizenshipCanadian, British
SpouseGraham Speake

Jennifer Speake, née Drake-Brockman (born 1944, Toronto) is a Canadian-British freelance writer and editor of reference books.

Life[edit]

Jennifer Anne Speake was born in Toronto in 1944.[citation needed] She was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Percy Lumsden Drake-Brockman and Vera Mary McLeod Harrison Topham, later of Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.[1][better source needed] She has an MA and BPhil.[citation needed]

Career[edit]

Working at Oxford University Press, Speake helped OED editor John Simpson bring out a second edition of his Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, and a third edition in 1998. She became sole editor for the fourth (2003) and subsequent editions.[2] Speake's other work included a biography of Thomas Vaughan, a philosopher from Wales.[3]

Speake's three-volume 2003 encyclopedia of travel literature received a 2004 Reference and User Services Association award.[4] One reviewer called it "an amazing collection of those people, famous, not-so-famous, and infamous alike, who have traveled the world over, with long lists of additional books for the travel narrative lover".[5] Another reviewer, while noting inconsistency in its coverage, praised it as providing "an unusually rich entrée into an immense field that crosses cultural, historical and discipinary boundaries."[6]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Drake-Brockman, Jennifer; Turner, A. J. (1974). "An emblematic watch by Gribelin". Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance. 36 (1): 143–150. ISSN 0006-1999. JSTOR 20675174.
  • Rudrum, Alan; Drake-Brockman, Jennifer (1984). The works of Thomas Vaughan. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-812473-2. OCLC 9281738.[7]
  • Speake, Jennifer (1983). Biblical quotations. New York: Facts on File Inc. ISBN 9780871962416. OCLC 9217946.[8]
  • Simpson, John; Speake, Jennifer, eds. (1992). The Concise Oxford dictionary of proverbs (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866177-0. OCLC 24872450.[9]
  • Speake, Jennifer (2003). Literature of travel and exploration : an encyclopedia. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 1-57958-247-8. OCLC 55631133.[10]
  • Simpson, J.A..; Speake, Jennifer (2003). The Oxford dictionary of proverbs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860524-2. OCLC 52696399.[11]
  • Bergin, Thomas Goddard; Speake, Jennifer (2004). Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation. New York: Facts On File. ISBN 0-8160-5451-7. OCLC 53880313.[12][13]


Personal life[edit]

In the 1970s she married Graham Speake,[1] an English classicist and academic publisher.[14]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Marriages". The Times. 24 September 1971. p. 14.
  2. ^ Mieder, Wolfgang (2018). "The Word [and Phrase] Detective: A Proverbial Tribute to OED Editor John Simpson" (PDF). Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship. 35 (1): 227.
  3. ^ Speake, Jennifer (2004). "Vaughan, Thomas (1621–1666), hermetic philosopher and alchemist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28148. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 2022-10-21. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ Committee, Rusa Codes Reference Sources (Spring 2004). "Outstanding Reference Sources: The 2004 Selection on Recent Titles". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 43 (3): 215–216. JSTOR 20864201.
  5. ^ Ellsworth Ross, Abigail F. (Spring 2004). "Review: Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia by Jennifer Speake". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 43 (3): 267–268. JSTOR 20864220.
  6. ^ Burton, Stacy (Summer 2004). "Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia by Jennifer Speake". Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 11 (2): 279–280. doi:10.1093/isle/11.2.279. JSTOR 44086328.
  7. ^ Reviews for The works of Thomas Vaughan
  8. ^ Reviews for Biblical Quotations
  9. ^ Reviews for The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
  10. ^ Reviews for Literature of Travel and Exploration
  11. ^ Reviews for The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
  12. ^ Reviews for Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation
  13. ^ Woolf, D. R. (Winter 1988). "Review: The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, by Thomas G. Bergin and Jennifer Speake". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 19 (4): 702–703. doi:10.2307/2541028. JSTOR 2541028.
  14. ^ "How one man came to love the mountain that also captivated the Prince of Wales". Banbury Guardian. 13 February 2016.
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