Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics

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Joseph Addison
Jane Austen
William Clift
Captain Cook
John Dryden
Sarah Fielding
Ann Fisher
Brilliana Harley
Robert Lowth
Dorothy Osborne
Samuel Pepys

Alexander Pope
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Samuel Richardson

Ignatius Sancho
William Shakespeare

Thomas Spence
Jonathan Swift

Mary Wollstonecraft
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Individual authors and their language

 

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

William Clift (1775-1849)

James Cook (1728-1779)

John Dryden (1631-1700): additions welcome!

Sarah Fielding (1710-1768)

Ann Fisher (1719-before 1801)

Lady Brilliana Harley (1598-1645)

Robert Lowth (1710-1787)

Elizabeth Montagu (1718 or 1720-1800)

Dorothy Osborne (1627-1695)

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)

Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Thomas Spence (1750-1814)

Jonathan Swift (1676-1745)

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

 

(for further additions, contact hsl-shl@hum.leidenuniv.nl)