Creator
Ann Fisher
Title
A Practical New Grammar with Exercises of Bad English.
Coverage
Newcastle
Publisher
Thomas Slack
Date
1762
Subject
7th ed.
Description
Born in Cumberland, Fisher (1719–1778) became a business partner with her printer-husband Thomas Slack, who founded the Newcastle Chronicle. The mother of nine, she wrote many pedagogical works. This grammar is in the form of a catechism—a long series of questions and answers. She is remembered chiefly as the grammarian who first stated a rule that still sparks controversy: that the masculine pronoun includes the feminine.