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Category Archives: letter writing
Late Modern English letters in the classroom
Last Friday, I taught a class of 11-year olds about Jane Austen and her letters. What an amazing experience it was. The occasion was the University of Leiden’s 444th birthday, for which a programme called “Meet the professor” was set … Continue reading
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Jane Austen’s Language …
… is the topic of this year’s Sample Lecture for English organised by the Leiden University Humanities Faculty on 15 April 2016. During this lecture you will learn why Jane Austen’s language (in addition to her novels) is of interest … Continue reading
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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Clever letter writing tools: the Polygraph
Here is Martijn Slokker’s first blogpost: While doing research for my course paper I made the fortuitous decision of watching the 2008 HBO miniseries John Adams, a series that chronicles the political life of the second president of the United … Continue reading
Fluency in an English letter from Queen Wilhemina
Here is Jiayan Xu’s first blogpost: During our visit to the Dutch Family Royal Archives in The Hague, I looked at one of the letters of Queen Wilhemina, intending to see how good her English was at that time. On 23 … Continue reading
Sparroy, Toadelcrancz, Il Giotto, and Goatus esq.
And here is Sopio Zhgenti’s first blogpost: Virginia Woolf’s letters are a fascinating source for many things, but also, as I discovered for her use of nicknames, which we find for many of her correspondents including herself, in the opening … Continue reading
Some interesting findings about Capitalization
This is Benjamin Kennicott (1718-1783), a biblical scholar, who took it upon himself in the 1760s to collate Hebrew manuscripts that were written prior to the invention of printing. For this purpose, the sum of £10,000 (around £750,000 in modern … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Kennicott, capitalisation, Jan Jacob Schultens
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“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
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.
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