Monthly Archives: January 2014

Just out

Earlier this week, my book In Search of Jane Austen: The Language of the Letters (OUP) was published. This is how it is described in the OUP linguistics catalogue that came in today: And here is the missing image:

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Letters to Sir Joseph Banks

This year, in our course Philology 3 (History of the English Language), the students did a project on the correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820). Banks is described on Wikipedia as a “naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences” … Continue reading

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