Category Archives: 18th-century letters

Musical Correctness: “One Stroke and You’ve Consumed My Waking Days”

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Ingrid Tieken

And here is Ilse Stolte’s first blog post for the MA course Late Modern English Letters: In Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical on Alexander Hamilton’s life (1757-1804) – aptly named Hamilton – a lot is said (or sung) about letters. One song … Continue reading →

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An MA course on Late Modern English letters

Posted on January 3, 2019 by Ingrid Tieken

The coming semester, I will be teaching another MA course on Late Modern English letters. The aim of the course is for students at Leiden to learn all about letter writing during that period, including analysing the language of this … Continue reading →

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The Mary Hamilton Papers available online

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

Letters carefully transliterated from the Mary Hamilton Papers in the John Rylands Library are freely available to any interested reader. The corpus currently stands at 161 letters dated 1764-1819 – over 70,000 words of text. The Image to Text project … Continue reading →

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Belle van Zuylen’s letters

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

The Belle van Zuylen Correspondence project is looking for volunteers to transcribe the letters (most of which are in French). Look at their blog (in Dutch) for more information.

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Periphrastic do and Colonial Lag

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

And since she sent me both blogposts all at once, here is Esther Spaanderman’s second one, also on the Adams Papers: “But as I speak french very imperfectly and she understands not a syllable of English I suppose she did … Continue reading →

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Dont vs. don’t: early American usage?

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

Esther Spaanderman is the last of my students who owes us her blogposts. Here is the first one: A while ago, I studied periphrastic do in the letters of John Adams (1735-1826), the second president of the United States. As … Continue reading →

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The Adams Family Papers

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

The Adams Family is a popular topic in this blog. Here is another blogpost on them, Martijn Slokker’s last one:  When I wrote my course paper, I worked with the Adams Family Papers, an electronic archive which contains (among other … Continue reading →

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Jane Austen: a very polite correspondent

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

Merel Kohsiek’s second blog post is on a comparison between the language of Charlotte Brontë and that of Jane Austen: For my analysis of the language of grief in Charlotte Brontë’s letters (see also my previous blog post), I did a … Continue reading →

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Politeness strategies in valedictions

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

Epistolary fomulas were clearly a popular topic during last semester’s course on Late Modern English letters. Here is what Klazien Tilstra wrote about themin her second blogpost: This is not the first blog post on opening and closing formulae in Late Modern … 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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