Selected Bibliography:
Jane Barker
(1652-1732)

By Julie Schutzman,
University of Pennsylvania

Last revised 2 June 2001

Editions

• Collected Works

  • The Poems of Jane Barker: The Magdalen Manuscript, ed. Kathryn King (Oxford: Magdalen College, 1998).
  • The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, ed. Carol Shiner Wilson (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997).
  • The Entertaining Novels of Mrs. Jane Barker, 2 vols. (London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and E. Curll, 1719).
  • Poetical Recreations: Consisting of Original Poems, Songs, Odes, &c. with Several New Translations (London: 1688).
  
  

• Individual Works

  • Exilius: or, The Banish'd Roman (London, 1715).
  • A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies (London: Printed for E. Curll and T. Payne, 1723).
  • The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen (London: Printed for A. Bettisworth, 1726).
  • Love Intrigues; or, the History of the Amours of Bosvil and Galesia (London: Printed for E. Curll, 1713).
  
  

• Correspondence

  • British Library, London: Stowe MS 232: Volume I, Jacobite Correspondences, 1717-1732. This MS includes a letter from Barker to the Duke of Ormond dated 18 March 1718, encouraging a renewed Jacobite effort to retake the English throne.
  
  

• Archives

  • Magdalen College Library, Oxford: MS 343 (ca. 1701): "Poems on several occasions in three parts: The first refering to the times. The second, are poems writ since the author was in France, or at least most of them. The third, are taken out of a miscellany heretofore printed, and writ by the same author." This is the last and most complete version of Barker's poems.
  • British Library, London: Add. MS 21, 621 (ca. 1700): "A Collection of poems refering to the times; since the King's accession to the Crown. Occasionally writ according to the circumstance of time and place." This manuscript is essentially the same as the first third of the Magdalen College MS 343.
  
  

• Anthologies

  • Germaine Greer, Jeslyn Medoff, Melinda Sansone, and Susan Hastings, eds., Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Women's Seventeenth-Century Verse (London: Virago Press, 1987; repr. 1988), pp. 354-57.
  • Robert DeMaria, ed., British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).
  • Paula R. Backscheider and John J. Richetti, eds., Popular Fiction By Women: 1660-1730 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
  
  

Criticism

• Reference Works

  • Margaret Anne Doody, "Jane Barker," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, 39.I, ed. Martin Battestin (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985): 24-30.
  • Janet Todd, ed., British Women Writers (New York: Ungar/Continuum, 1989).
  • Janet Todd, ed., Dictionary of British and American Women Writers, 1660-1800 (London: Methuen, 1985).
  
  

• Monographs and Articles

  • Paula R. Backscheider, "Women Writers and the Chains of Identification," Studies in the Novel 19 (Fall 1987): 245-62.
  • Carol Barash, English Women's Poetry, 1649-1714: Politics, Community, and Linguistic Authority (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
  • Toni Bowers, "Jacobite Difference and the Poetry of Jane Barker," ELH 64, no. 4 (Winter 1997): 857-69.
  • Margaret Anne Doody, "Deserts, Ruins, and Troubled Waters: Female Dreams in Fiction and the Development of the Gothic Novel," Genre 10 (Winter 1977): 529-72.
  • Margaret J. M. Ezell, Writing Women's Literary History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993).
  • J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels: Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (New York: Norton, 1990).
  • Kathryn R. King, Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career, 1675-1725 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000).
  • Kathryn R. King and Jeslyn Medoff, "Jane Barker and her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record," Eighteenth-Century Life 21 (Nov. 1997): 16-38.
  • Kathryn R. King, "Jane Barker, Mary Leopor and a Chain of Very Odd Contingencies," English Language Notes 33 (March 1996): 14-27.
  • Kathryn R. King, "Of Needles and Pens and Women's Work," Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 14 (Spring 1995): 77-93.
  • Kathryn R. King, "'The Unaccountable Wife' and Other Stories of Female Desire in Jane Barker's A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 35 (Spring 1994): 155-72.
  • Kathryn R. King, "Jane Barker, Poetical Recreations, and the Sociable Text," ELH 61, no. 3 (Fall 1994): 551-70.
  • Kathryn R. King, "Galesia, Jane Barker, and Coming to Authorship," in Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women, ed. Carol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney (Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1993), pp. 91-104.
  • Jean B. Kern, "The Old Maid; Or, 'To Grow Old, and Be Poor, and Laughed At,'" in Fetter'd or Free?: British Women Novelists, 1670-1815, ed. Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski (Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 1986), 201-14.
  • William H. McBurney, "Edmund Curll, Mrs. Jane Barker, and the English Novel," Philological Quarterly 27 (October 1958): 385-99.
  • Jeslyn Medoff, "Dryden, Jane Barker, and the 'Fireworks' on the Night of the Battle of Sedgemore (1685)," Notes & Queries 35 (June 1988): 175-76.
  • John Richetti, Popular Fiction Before Richardson: Narrative Patterns, 1700-1739 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969).
  • Jane Spencer, "Creating the Women Writer: The Autobiographical Works of Jane Barker," Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 2 (Fall 1983): 165-81.
  • Jane Spencer, The Rise of the Women Novelist (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986).
  • Janet Todd, The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing, and Fiction, 1660-1800 (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1989).
  • Marilyn L. Williamson, Raising Their Voices: British Women Writers, 1650-1750 (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1990), 244-53.
  
  

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