In Victorian use, speaker claimed a range of meanings. Some were long-established. ‘One who speaks or talks’ was, the OED confirms, a fundamental aspect of English. So, too, were senses which directed attention to public as well as private converse or which set out a range of qualitative patterns in relation to individual use. In… Continue reading Voicing the Text: Speech, Speakers, and the Performative Anthology – blog post by Lynda Mugglestone