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Author Archives: Ingrid Tieken
ESL in the Late Modern Netherlands
Today we are visiting the Dutch Royal Family Archives in The Hague, to be able to study the English letters the former Dutch queen Wilhelmina wrote to her governess Miss Saxton Winter. An edition of the letters was published in 2012, … Continue reading
“That we are Your Servants wherever we go”
All the MA students in this year’s MA course on Late Modern English Letters have to write blog posts on their findings. Here is the first one, and it is by Sabine Krouwels: A couple of weeks ago, we discussed … Continue reading
Sennight a dialect word?
This week, in the MA course on Late Modern English letters I teach, we read an article by Frances Austin about how William Clift (1775-1849) quickly lost any traces of his original dialect when he moved from his native Bodmin … Continue reading
Joseph Banks in a Dutch Track Shoot
About a year ago, I gave a workshop to our second-year students here at Leiden on eighteenth-century letter writing. To practice their newly acquired skills, the students had to produce a transcription of a letter by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), whose letters … Continue reading
Jane Austen and the art of letter writing
Is this a new image of Jane Austen? Would she have owned a writing desk like the one in the picture? And how would she have acquired the art of letter writing? Read all about it on OUPblog.
Officially out today
Though the book was published several weeks ago already, the true publication date, so its actual birthday, is today, 20 February 2014. For a description of the book’s contents, look at OUP’s website, and feel free to get in touch if … Continue reading
Carriers of Closeness: the letters of Charlotte Brontë
…I am determined to write, for I should be sorry to appear a neglectful correspondent to one from whose communications I have derived, and still derive, so much pleasure (Smith 1995: II, 128). Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) wrote these words to … Continue reading
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
The spelling of a president’s daughter
Inge Otto, research master student at the University of Leiden, wrote her BA thesis this summer on the letters of Abigail Adams, the daughter of one of the presidents of the United States. What follows is a summary of her … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams, history of spelling, John Adams
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