Tag Archives: Robert Lowth

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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