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Category Archives: 19th-century letters
In favour of intensifiers
And here is Ekaterina Krokhina’s second blogpost, nicely continuing her findings after the first. A good example of work in progress. I am really very much indebted to you for your well-filled and very interesting letter (1832; Charlotte Brontё to … Continue reading
On the history of most
I’m teaching a course on Late Modern English letters this semester, for which all participants (as in earlier courses on the subject) have to write two blog posts on a topic relating to what we’re doing in the course. Here … Continue reading
An MA course on Late Modern English letters
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
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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Tagged John Rylands Library, Mary Hamilton
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Excitement or illiteracy?
Here is Sopio Zhgenti’s second blogpost, once again on Virginia Woolf: The previous blog post I wrote was about Virginia Woolf and the nicknames she used with people close to her. This time, I would like to continue talking about … Continue reading
Jane Austen: a very polite correspondent
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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Tagged Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, politeness
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The Brontë sisters’ pseudonyms
Merel Kohsiek wrote her first blogpost on the Brontë sisters’ pseudonyms, and how Charlotte’s identity was revealed: Charlotte Brontë is now known mainly for her novel Jane Eyre, but her contemporaries did not know her as such. The novel was published under … Continue reading
Politeness strategies in valedictions
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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Tagged Brown and Levinson, Elizabeth Montagu, politeness
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Late Modern English letters 