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Elizabeth Elstob

(Elstob, Elizabeth, 1683-1756)

Elizabeth Elstob (29 September 1683 – 3 June 1756), the "Saxon Nymph", was a pioneering scholar of Anglo-Saxon. She was the first person to publish a grammar of Old English written in modern English. (From Wikipedia)

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Books by Elizabeth Elstob:

Elstob, Elizabeth, 1683-1756: An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities (1956 reprint with commentary), contrib. by Charles Peake (Gutenberg text)
Elstob, Elizabeth, 1683-1756, trans.: An English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-Day of St. Gregory, Anciently Used in the English-Saxon Church: Giving an Account of the Conversion of the English from Paganism to Christianity (London: Printed by W. Bowyer, 1709), by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric, contrib. by William Elstob (multiple formats at archive.org)
Elstob, Elizabeth, 1683-1756: The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue (London: Printed by W. Bowyer, 1715) (multiple formats at Google)
Elstob, Elizabeth, 1683-1756: The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue (based on the 1715 edition, with Charles Peake's commentary and additional notes), contrib. by Charles Peake (illustrated HTML at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

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Elstob, Elizabeth, 1683-1756: An English-Saxon homily on the birth-day of St. Gregory: : anciently used in the English-Saxon church. Giving an account of the conversion of the English from paganism to Christianity. (Printed by W. Bowyer, 1709), also by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric (page images at HathiTrust)

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