Further Reading
- Additional coverage of Barker's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 39, 131; Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 42.
- 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., 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.)
- King, Kathryn R., “Jane Barker, Mary Leapor and a Chain of Very Odd Contingencies,” English Language Notes 33 (March 1996): 14-27. (Examines the poem “Catharina's Cave,” attributed to John Newton and adapted and preserved by the working-class poet Mary Leapor, which the author says has a great deal to tell readers about Barker's virginal self-image.)
- 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.)
- Medoff, Jeslyn, “Dryden, Jane Barker, and the ‘Fireworks’ on the Night of the Battle of Sedgemore (1685),” Notes & Queries 35 (June 1988): 175-76. (Observes that phrases in poems by Barker and John Dryden indicate that the two described the same phenomenon.)
- Shiner Wilson, Carol, Introduction to The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, edited by Carol Shiner Wilson, pp. xv-xliv. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. (Reconstructs Barker's life from a variety of contemporary records and emphasizes the way Barker's works have forced scholars to rethink literary history by shedding new light on eighteenth-century authorship, political identity, sexuality, the literary marketplace, and social class.)
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