Barker, Jane (Vol. 80) | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
BIOGRAPHY
King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career 1675-1725. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000, 263 p.
The only full-fledged biography of Barker, emphasizing her writing life—her literary friendships, readers and readerships, relations with men in the book trade, and dialogue with literary conventions.
CRITICISM
Gibbons, G. S. “Mrs Jane Barker.” Notes and Queries 12th Series, no. 33 (30 September 1922): 278.
Brief biography and description of the Magdalen manuscript of Barker's poems.
King, Kathryn R. “Of Needles and Pens and Women's Work.” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 14 (spring 1995): 77-93.
Discusses the metonymic needles and pens in Barker's A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies and Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House.
———. “Jane Barker, Mary Leapor and a Chain of Very Odd Contingencies.” English...
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