Scholar Christopher Mulvey
considers that this is the only eighteenth- or early-nineteenth-century grammar held by Chawton House Library
that might well (unlike works by Ann Fisher
or Susanna Haswell Rowson
) be enjoyed by a...
Textual Features
Hester Lynch Piozzi
HLP
concentrates on the fine shades of difference between near synonyms, for instance Affability, Condescension, Courtesy, and Graciousness.
Winchester, Simon. “Roget and his Brilliant, Unrivalled, Malign, and Detestable Thesaurus”. Atlantic Monthly, Vol.
287
, No. 5, May 2001, pp. 53-75.
57
She sometimes draws on Johnson
's Dictionary but does not always entirely agree with it. She...
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Texts
Mulvey, Christopher. “The Eighteenth-Century English Project: Correcting the Language”. The Female Spectator, Vol.