Barker, Jane (Vol. 80) | Kathryn R. King (essay date 1998)
Kathryn R. King (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: King, Kathryn R. Introduction to The Poems of Jane Barker: The Magdalen Manuscript, pp. 1-23. Oxford: Magdalen College, 1998.
[In the following essay, King claims that the Magdalen manuscript of Barker's poems is particularly important for the glimpse it affords into Barker's writing life and her evolution as a artist; for the light it sheds on seventeenth-century English Catholicism, early Jacobitism, spiritual autobiography, and women's writing; and for the oppositions it discloses between public/private and political/domestic in writings about politics and affairs of state.]
THE MAGDALEN MANUSCRIPT AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE
One of the most important, and intriguing, figures to emerge in the current recovery of early women writers is Jane Barker (1652-1732), of Wilsthorpe, Lincolnshire. Barker was the author of three partly autobiographical novels (1713-26) and a politically encoded romance...
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