Category Archives: 19th-century letters

From Letters to Legislature

Posted on April 13, 2014 by diane1genie

Do you love 18th/19th century letters and/or documents? Do you love to transcribe? If you answered Yes, then the Transcribe Bentham Initiative might be just up your alley! Transcribe Bentham is an initiative started by University College London, with the … Continue reading →

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Officially out today

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

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 →

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Carriers of Closeness: the letters of Charlotte Brontë

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

…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 →

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Just out

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

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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Sara Hutchinson’s lifedates?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Ingrid Tieken

Could anyone help me find Sara Hutchinson’s lifedates? Sara was the sister of William Wordsorth’s wife Mary (1770-1859). An edition of her letters was published in 1954, by K. Coburn, but we don’t have the book in the library here. The … Continue reading →

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Goodbye

Posted on December 9, 2012 by rilanagravel

Reading through the Browning love letters, the opening and closing formulas are particularly interesting, since they change from more formal ones to more informal ones in the course of time. Examples for formal opening and closing formulas are the following … Continue reading →

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William Clift’s correspondence with Elizabeth

Posted on December 4, 2012 by verakirsten

While I was preparing for my presentation and working on my paper, I though it would be a good idea to tell a few things about William Clift’s correspondence with his eldest sister Elizabeth. In 1792, William arrived in London … Continue reading →

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Thou Shalt Not Cross

Posted on December 2, 2012 by diane1genie

After Annemiek’s presentation on Penholder’s Everbody’s Letter Writer, I started to think about crossing again. Earlier in this blog, there was a post by Annemiek on what Penholder wrote about the reasons for not crossing letters. Reasons for crossing were either that … Continue reading →

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Robert Browning and “the full stop”

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Beatriz Medina Sánchez

Punctuation marks had to be acquired and properly applied in writing as long as the writer is acquainted with their rules.  On the basis that treatises on punctuation were scarce and grammars used to deal with this “art” briefly, punctuation … Continue reading →

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Self-corrections and prepositions

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

This week, we are reading Anita Auer’s article on self-corrections in Late Modern English letters (Auer 2008). In this article, Auer discusses three case studies, and one of them concerns the letters of Lucy Whitaker (1759-1837), the wife of a … Continue reading →

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