Source | Period or person | Words per sentence |
Carroll (2013) | Elizabethan times (excl. Shakespeare) | 60 |
150 years ago | 30 | |
2013 | 20 | |
Moore (2011) | Chaucer | 49 |
Dickens | 20 | |
JK Rowling | 12 | |
Some contemporary science writers | 15-20 | |
Sherman, in DuBay (2004) | Pre-Elizabethan times | 50 |
Elizabethan times | 45 | |
Victorian times | 29 | |
1890 | 23 |