Author Archives: Ingrid Tieken

Holland through the eyes of an Englishman: Joseph Banks in The Hague

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

And here is Ilse Daalhof’s second blogpost: Among  the Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, which I also mentioned in my last blog post, I found a series called “Journal of a Tour in Holland”. The series consists of 81 pages on … Continue reading →

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A final Adieu

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

Ilse Daalhof wrote the following blogpost, on the correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, which she has been studying: In the week we were looking at opening and closing statements of letters, I stumbled onto what appeared to me a unique closing … Continue reading →

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Fluency in an English letter from Queen Wilhemina

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

Here is Jiayan Xu’s first blogpost: During our visit to the Dutch Family Royal Archives in The Hague, I looked at one of the letters of Queen Wilhemina, intending to see how good her English was at that time. On 23 … Continue reading →

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Disappointment strikes: NOT a new letter by Jane Austen

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

Last week, the Mail Online wrote that a “Previously unseen letter by Jane Austen where she first writes about Pride and Prejudice goes on public display for the first time”.  The letter is described as a “handwritten note, which lay … Continue reading →

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Sparroy, Toadelcrancz, Il Giotto, and Goatus esq.

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

And here is Sopio Zhgenti’s first blogpost: Virginia Woolf’s letters are a fascinating source for many things, but also, as I discovered for her use of nicknames, which we find for many of her correspondents including herself, in the opening … Continue reading →

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Children’s letters from EBB

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

Here is Christel Brouwer’s first blogpost: While looking through the Browning Letters corpus (Baylor) I found two very interesting children’s letters from Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB). The first letter was written in 1814 by an 8-year-old EBB, and it contains … Continue reading →

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English by Dutch people

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

Elsewhere in this blog, I’ve described a project which studies this use of English by Late Modern native speakers of Dutch. Here is a very interesting example of such a letter, in a blogpost by Marlies Reitsma, another student in … Continue reading →

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Terms of endearment in the nineteenth century

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

Ana Revan is another student in the Late Modern English letters course. This is her first blogpost. Nowadays we see people on TV use a wide range of pet-names for their loved ones, and we do the same ourselves in our … Continue reading →

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New letter by Lowth

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

A new letter by Robert Lowth (1710-1787) has come to light. Read more about it here.

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’Tis thou hast slain my son! Zero relatives in Horace Walpole’s writing

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

Below follows Lennart van der Velden’s first blog post, on the language of Horace Walpole, someone dealt with elsewhere on this blog: Horace Walpole (1717- 1794) is one of those people from whom a large collection of letters and other writings have thankfully … Continue reading →

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