Tag Archives: Belle van Zuylen

Belle van Zuylen’s letters

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

The Belle van Zuylen Correspondence project is looking for volunteers to transcribe the letters (most of which are in French). Look at their blog (in Dutch) for more information.

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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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