James Speght

Standard Name: Speght, James

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Family and Intimate relationships Rachel Speght
RS 's father , recently widowed, married again. His new wife was a widow named Elizabeth Smith, the mother of two children.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.
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Speight, Helen. “Rachel Speght’s Polemical Life”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
65
, No. 3/4, 2002, pp. 449-63.
454
Family and Intimate relationships Rachel Speght
RS 's father, James Speght (sometimes confused with the Chaucerian scholar Thomas Speght ), was a Cambridge graduate, himself a scholar, and was already, at thirty-three, Anglican rector of a parish in the City of...
Literary responses Rachel Speght
Some contemporary readers thought this work beyond the powers of a young woman, and therefore attributed it not to RS but to her father .
Speght, Rachel. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght. Editor Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, Oxford University Press, 1996.
45
The anonymous author of Ester Hath Hang'd Haman belittled...

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