-
Recent Posts
Archives
- November 2025
- February 2025
- June 2024
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- October 2023
- April 2023
- October 2020
- August 2019
- July 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- October 2017
- April 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- March 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- September 2013
- April 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
Categories
Meta
-
Join 55 other subscribers
Category Archives: news
Seminar on Jane Austen
2025 is an important year, 250 years after Jane Austen’s date of birth. Various activities will commemorate that year, and one of them is a seminar that will be held at the Complutense University of Madrid. One paper will be … Continue reading
Posted in news, spelling
Tagged Complutense, Jane Austen, language of letters, Late Modern English spelling
Leave a comment
Just out!
Interested in graphological aspects of Late Modern English letters? My article on abbreviation stops and related matters has just come out. With thanks to the editors for their excellent job. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostaded. 2025. Visual pragmatics and Late Modern … Continue reading
Jane Austen’s Will – and what it led to
Not about her letters this time, sorry about that! But her original Will was published among her letters in Deirdre Le Faye’s important edition of her correspondence, so there is a little bit of a link here. My second article … Continue reading
On Late Modern American English
Just out: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (University of Leiden), Acquiring epistolary literacy in nineteenth-century New England, published last Friday in Volume 16 of Token, A Journal of English Linguistics. Interested? You can read and download the article here.
Posted in 19th-century letters, letter writing, news
Leave a comment
Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) and his letters
Not exactly Late Modern English, but interesting all the same! I’m giving a talk on his language use in the Kettle’s Yard letter collection on 18 April 2024 in Leiden from 2 to 5 pm, as part of the LUCL … Continue reading
About the Wills of Jane Austen and her immediate family
This Sunday, I will be giving a talk at the Leiden Mayflower Bookshop on Jane Austen’s Will and those of her mother and sister, both called Cassandra. The talk will be in Dutch, but I would be happy to present … Continue reading
Special issue on Third-Wave Historical Sociolinguistics
If you’re looking for anything to read during the Christmas recess period, here is something you’ll find interesting: a special issue of the International Journal of English Studies (23/2) entirely devoted to studies within the fairly new and burgeoning field … Continue reading
On Intra-writer Variation
Earlier this year, a book was published, edited by Markus Schiegg and Judith Huber, called Intra-Witer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics (Lausanne etc.: Peter Lang, 2023). In includes a substantial number of papers on a variety of different languages and on … Continue reading
Frances Austin – a pioneer in historical sociolinguistics
Last week, we received an uncharacteristically early Christmas card from Frances Austin. But the card was not to wish us a merry Christmas: it was accompanied by a note from her nephew to say that she had died on 30 … Continue reading
Posted in 18th-century letters, letter writing, news
Leave a comment
Workshop on Late Modern English (polite) letter writing
For those readers interested in LModE letter writing, sign up for this online masterclass: The (polite) letter writing in Late Modern Times. Registration is free!
Posted in letter writing, news
Leave a comment
Late Modern English letters 