Book review
The Bishop’s Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism in English. By Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xvi, 340 pp. ISBN 9780199579273 £65

Reviewed by Scott Mandelbrote
Peterhouse, Cambridge and All Souls College, Oxford
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