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Rachel Speght (1597 –
death date unknown) was a poet and polemicist. She was the
first Englishwoman to
identify herself, by name, as a
polemicist and critic...
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Thomas Speght (died 1621) was an
English schoolmaster and
editor of
Geoffrey Chaucer. He was from a
Yorkshire family, and
matriculated as a
sizar of Peterhouse...
- Foxe's Acts and Monuments, and then it
appeared in
Speght's edition of Chaucer's Works.
Speght's "Life of Chaucer"
echoes Foxe's own account,
which is...
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fencing treatise.
Three defensive responses as
pamphlets were made by
Rachel Speght,
Ester Sowernam and
Constantia Munda. Swetnam's
pamphlet attacking women...
- jone esquier', i.e. "plusieurs
jeunes escuyers" ('other
young squires');
Speght (1598). Froissart's
account of the
history of
English monarchs includes...
- 17th
century corrected a
muddled annotation to Chaucer's line by
Thomas Speght.
Walter William Skeat adopted the
derivation of
Dulcarnon from the Arabic:...
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became the
South Island of New Zealand. (Māori mythology) Guingelot,
Thomas Speght, an
editor or Chaucer's
works at the end of the 16th century, made a p****ing...
- the boat were
apparently familiar to an
editor of Chaucer's
works Thomas Speght, who
remarked that Wade's boat bore the name Guingelot. To the Angles, Wade...
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women greater freedom of expression.
Noted feminist writers included Rachel Speght,
Katherine Evans,
Sarah Chevers,
Margaret Fell (a
founding Quaker), Mary...
- was a
devout Anglican;
their parish priest was
James Speght, a
neighbour and
father of
Rachel Speght. Moundeford's Vir
Bonus showed him to be an admirer...
