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A virtual tour of Jane Austen’s letters
In their autumn news letter, Jane Austen’s House Museum announced a virtual exhibition of Jane Austen’s letters. Great news for anyone not able to travel due to the worldwide COVID-19 restrictions. If you visit their website, you’ll find a piece by Sophie Reynolds on one … Continue reading
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English by Dutch people (2)
I wrote my first blogpost about a letter written by a Dutchman, which was written in English entirely. Meanwhile, I found another example of English written by a Dutch person, in a letter, dated 14 April 1758, where I did … Continue reading
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Awkward
January is a month of marking – essays, chapters as well as blogposts Here is another one, Klazien Tilstra’s first piece, which is far from awkward! While reading a letter by Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800), I was struck by the word awkward. … Continue reading
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Holland through the eyes of an Englishman: Joseph Banks in The Hague
And here is Ilse Daalhof’s second blogpost: Among the Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, which I also mentioned in my last blog post, I found a series called “Journal of a Tour in Holland”. The series consists of 81 pages on … Continue reading
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The Bluestocking Corpus to be published in 2015
A few days ago Anni Sairio published an exciting blog post on Dynamics of Change in Language Practices and Social Meaning (1700–1900). She announced that The Bluestocking Corpus will probably be published in 2015! What is even more exciting is … Continue reading
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“Ugly, awkward Slutt”
Last week, I was reading through the out-letters of Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)* in order to build a reference corpus for my research on the language of John Gay (1685–1732). While reading, I came across something which seemed very shocking to me. … Continue reading
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Corpus Annotation
This post will illustrate different possible ways to add additional information to your data and builds forth on the tools discussed in my previous post. Corpus annotation makes it possible to retrieve specific data systematically. It might be a bit … Continue reading
’Tis thou hast slain my son! Zero relatives in Horace Walpole’s writing
Below follows Lennart van der Velden’s first blog post, on the language of Horace Walpole, someone dealt with elsewhere on this blog: Horace Walpole (1717- 1794) is one of those people from whom a large collection of letters and other writings have thankfully … Continue reading
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Late Modern English Letters: Corpora & Tools
This post is a part 1 of 2 in a series on tips and tricks on doing research on Late Modern English letters with the help corpora and other tools. Part 1 is about building your own corpus and concordancing … Continue reading
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