| Description |
1 online resource (538 pages) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by P.D. James; Introduction; Women's Letters: The Feminist Approach; 1. How Women View Their Roles; 2. Friendship; 3. Childhood and Education; 4. Love and Sexual Passion; 5. Marriage and Childbirth; 6. Housekeeping and Daily Life; 7. Work; 8. War and Alleviating Suffering; 9. Travellers and Travelling; 10. Illness and Ageing; 11. Political Skills; Appendix 1: The Epistolary Novel; Appendix 2: Select Biographies; Sources; Acknowledgements; |
| Summary |
This inspiring and fascinating book is the first truly comprehensive study of women's letters ever published. Organised by subject matter, and covering a wide range of topics from politics, work and war, to childhood, love and sexual passion. '800 Years of Women's Letter' reveals the depth, breadth and diversity of women's lives through the ages. Here Holoise writes to Abelad of her undying devotion, Vita SackvilleWest and Virginia Woofl correspond about life and writing, and Queen Victoria complains to Robert Peel about the neglect of Buckingham Palace. Many more women write letters that reve. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Correspondence.
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Women -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01176947
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
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| Genre/Form |
Records and correspondence. (OCoLC)fst01423917
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kenyon, Olga 800 Years of Women's Letters New York : The History Press,c2011 |
| ISBN |
9780752472003 (electronic bk.) |
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0752472003 (electronic bk.) |
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