Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Noah Webster
Standard Name: Webster, Noah
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October 1789: Noah Webster, in the Massachusetts Magazine,...
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October 1789
Noah Webster
, in the Massachusetts Magazine, called for an American national spelling; Mercy Otis Warren
was one of the first writers to answer this call.
14 April 1828: Noah Webster published An American Dictionary...
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14 April 1828
Noah Webster
published An American Dictionary of the English Language, designed among other things to validate and make permanent the differences between American and British spelling.
