Quote of the day by Emily Brontë: ‘If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my…’

Emily Brontë, a 19th-century English writer, is celebrated for her novel Wuthering Heights. Born in Yorkshire, she lived a ...
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Department of English

Ph.D. Minnesota '60.History of the study of language, history of ideas, medieval. From Locke to Saussure: Essays on the Study of Language and Intellectual History; The Study of Language in England ...
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How English women wrote about their travels in the 19th century

In recent years, a series of publications, anthologies and documentaries have revived the figure of the 19th century English woman traveller. On screen we can also see their lives adapted to ...