Jennifer Speake, née Drake-Brockman (born 1944, Toronto) is a Canadian-British freelance writer and editor of reference books.
[citation needed] She was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Percy Lumsden Drake-Brockman and Vera Mary McLeod Harrison Topham, later of Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
[2] Speake's other work included a biography of Thomas Vaughan, a philosopher from Wales.
[3] Speake's three-volume 2003 encyclopedia of travel literature received a 2004 Reference and User Services Association award.
[5] Another reviewer, while noting inconsistency in its coverage, praised it as providing "an unusually rich entrée into an immense field that crosses cultural, historical and discipinary boundaries.