Book review
Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England. Edited Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. 361 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-019627-6 € 98 US$ 125

Reviewed by Susan M. Fitzmaurice
University of Sheffield
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