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Author Archives: Ingrid Tieken
A linguistic close-reading of Jane Austen’s Letter 10
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics “No new letters by Jane Austen have been found since the publication of the third edition in 1995,” Deirdre LeFaye concludes in her introduction to the fourth edition of Jane Austen’s … Continue reading
Posted in 19th-century letters, letter writing
Tagged Jane Austen, Jane Austen's language, Jane Austen's letters, OED
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Seminar on Jane Austen
2025 is an important year, 250 years after Jane Austen’s date of birth. Various activities will commemorate that year, and one of them is a seminar that will be held at the Complutense University of Madrid. One paper will be … Continue reading
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Tagged Complutense, Jane Austen, language of letters, Late Modern English spelling
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Just out!
Interested in graphological aspects of Late Modern English letters? My article on abbreviation stops and related matters has just come out. With thanks to the editors for their excellent job. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostaded. 2025. Visual pragmatics and Late Modern … Continue reading
On Late Modern English spelling: an appendix to Marco Condorelli, Introducing Historical Orthography (2022)
The book is a plea for paying more attention in linguistics curricula to historical orthography, and I couldn’t agree more. The book is well written, and in my view very accessible. Focusing on spelling systems worldwide, it also deals with … Continue reading
Jane Austen’s Will – and what it led to
Not about her letters this time, sorry about that! But her original Will was published among her letters in Deirdre Le Faye’s important edition of her correspondence, so there is a little bit of a link here. My second article … Continue reading
On Late Modern American English
Just out: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (University of Leiden), Acquiring epistolary literacy in nineteenth-century New England, published last Friday in Volume 16 of Token, A Journal of English Linguistics. Interested? You can read and download the article here.
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Jane Austen in English popular culture
No post about her letters this time, but about how ingrained she is in English popular culture. Apart from Shakespeare maybe the only other iconic English writer in this respect (a point I make in the introduction to my book … Continue reading
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Tagged how to fall asleep, Inspector Wexford, Jane Austen, Ruth Rendell
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Sarah Fielding (1710-1768) in the history of English
Recently, and to be honest a little unexpectedly, I was reminded of work I did about twenty-five years ago on the language of Sarah Fielding, the sister of, yes, but a novelist herself, as well as a scholar of Greek … Continue reading
Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) and his letters
Not exactly Late Modern English, but interesting all the same! I’m giving a talk on his language use in the Kettle’s Yard letter collection on 18 April 2024 in Leiden from 2 to 5 pm, as part of the LUCL … Continue reading
About the Wills of Jane Austen and her immediate family
This Sunday, I will be giving a talk at the Leiden Mayflower Bookshop on Jane Austen’s Will and those of her mother and sister, both called Cassandra. The talk will be in Dutch, but I would be happy to present … Continue reading
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