PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Dr Jenni Nuttall is an academic who's been teaching and researching medieval literature at the University of Oxford for the last twenty years, and who has had a lot of practice at making old words interesting. She has a DPhil from Oxford and completed the University of East Anglia's MA in Creative Writing. She is the author of a readers' guide to Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde with Cambridge University Press and she is contributing a chapter on 'Literary Language' for the Fifteenth Century volume of the Oxford History of Poetry in English, edited by Julia Boffey and A S G Edwards. Mother Tongue is her book first for the general reader.
From the womb-wicket to the child-mighty, and roaring maidens to cunning crones, MOTHER TONGUE encompasses a millennia of enthralling English parlance. Incisively scholarly, affectionately humorous (and sometimes quietly furious), Nuttall sifts the archives of centuries and listens to modern echoes, as lost voices emerge, showing how women have long spoken, and been spoken of. Vivid, philosophical, absorbing and urgent, this superb book teems with historical marvels and their 21st century resonances * Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of KINDRED *
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