Author: Richard W Bailey

Jane Austen's English is far different from Virginia Woolf's, but historians of the English language have given scant attention to the ways in whic...

When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly h...

This is the tale of the insalubrious and utterly failed life of the notorious nineteenth-century thief, murderer, professional impostor, and would-...