Category Archives: 19th-century letters

Excitement or illiteracy?

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

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 →

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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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The Brontë sisters’ pseudonyms

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

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 →

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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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“Your ever attached …”

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

Below follows Marlies Reitsma’s second blogpost: I remembered seeing an unusual subscription in a letter written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning a while ago. I searched for the subscription again in the digital collection of the Browning Letters and found it: Your ever … Continue reading →

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Call me ‘Ba’

Posted on January 16, 2015 by lapjeskatje

While doing research on the correspondence between Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB) and Sir Uvedale Price in the Browning Letters corpus published online by Baylor, I came across an interesting development in opening formulas. Sir Uvedale and EBB met when he was … 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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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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ESL in the Late Modern Netherlands

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

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 →

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Sennight a dialect word?

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

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 →

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