Jenni Nuttall
@Stylisticienne
Writer + medievalist @ExeterCollegeOx ~ MOTHER TONGUE: The Surprising History of Women’s Words out NOW with @ViragoBooks (and coming from @VikingBooks on 29/8)
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My most recent Babel: The Language Magazine column looks at a fascinating recent book about women's words by Jenni Nuttall
Of course the new improved Bodleian Libraries library catalogue has decoupled all of the permalinks in my reading lists
In her book, MOTHER TONGUE, Oxford University medievalist Jenni Nuttall helps us understand how the evolution of the English language can reveal a lot about women's rebellion against patriarchal strictures.
damemagazine.com/2023/08/31/the…
Jenni Nuttall’s book Mother Tongue, the surprising history of women’s words, is a rich history of the words that we use to describe women and their lives and why these matter - workingmums.co.uk/summer-book-cl… Jenni Nuttall
Nice to have an excerpt up on Literary Hub, on some of English’s first menstrual words. In fact the first part of MOTHER TONGUE which I wrote, as the ideas (and its tone, and the way to go about it) were forming
(thus I’m very fond of it as it got me an agent and a deal PDQ)