Tag Archives: Robert Lowth

Just out!

Posted on February 13, 2025 by Ingrid Tieken

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 →

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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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Lowth letters in Leiden

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

Great news: Leiden University Library owns two letters from the most authoritative 18th-century English grammarian, Robert Lowth (1710-1787). They were identified accidentally by Myrte Wouterse, BA English and Honours Academy student at the University of Leiden. Myrte and a fellow student had been taken … Continue reading →

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The Pen and the People

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

This is the title of a magnificent study by Susan Whyman. Its subtitle is English Letter Writers 1660-1800, and the book was first published in 2009 by Oxford University Press. It analyses a host of letters from the period, but focusses … Continue reading →

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