An apology for the study of northern antiquities

by Elizabeth Elstob

EN·~1 hours·3 chapters

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3 total

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Publication Number 61

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Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California 1956

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Description

This text is the introduction to the author's "Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue"

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Duration

~1 hours (69K characters)

Series

Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 61

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

Los Angeles: The Augustan Reprint Society, 1956

Credits

Produced by David Starner, Louise Hope and the Online Distributed

Release date

Mar 11, 2005

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15329

Subjects

Germanic languages English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 Hickes, George, 1642-1715 PE

About the author

Elizabeth Elstob

1683–1756

A pioneering scholar of Old English, she helped open Anglo-Saxon studies to a wider audience and became one of the earliest women to publish serious work in the field. Her life also reflects the persistence it took for a woman to keep learning and writing in the early 1700s.

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