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The Complete Letter-writer for Ladies & Gentlemen ...
Author: The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763)
Author: Alain KerhervéPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152755340X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
How did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other books, letter-writing manuals provided a possible solution. Although more than 160 editions can be traced for the eighteenth century, most manuals were largely intended for men. As a consequence, when The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was released in London in 1763, it was the first manual to be exclusively destined for women in eighteenth-century Britain. Even though it was published anonymously, several elements tend to show that it must have been edited by Edward Kimber. It was reprinted in Dublin in 1763 and in London in 1765 and largely circulated. The reasons for its success may have come from its concern in epistolary rhetoric, its original organisation, or the entertainment provided by examples coming from different sources, among which letters by Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Mary Collier, or the Marquise de Lambert. It also provided women with a variety of subjects which were supposed to be part of their sphere of interest, and others which were not, thus questioning a number of pre-conceived ideas on women and their way of writing with or without propriety. Unedited since 1765, the manual is now presented with introduction, notes and two indices focusing on the issues of sources, society and epistolary writing.
The Complete Letter Writer
Author: The Ladies' and Gentleman's Model Letter-writer
Author: The Ladies Complete Letter-writer; Teaching the Art of Inditing Letters on Every Subject, Etc
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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The Ladies and Gentlemen's Complete Letter-writer
Author: Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England
Author: James DaybellPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191531898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England represents one of the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period to be undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and non-political. Based on over 3,000 manuscript letters, it shows that letter-writing was a larger and more socially diversified area of female activity than has been hitherto assumed. In that letters constitute the largest body of extant sixteenth-century women's writing, the book initiates a reassessment of women's education and literacy in the period. As indicators of literacy, letters yield physical evidence of rudimentary writing activity and abilities, document 'higher' forms of female literacy, and highlight women's mastery of formal rhetorical and epistolary conventions. Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England also stresses that letters are unparalleled as intimate and immediate records of family relationships, and as media for personal and self-reflective forms of female expression. Read as documents that inscribe social and gender relations, letters shed light on the complex range of women's personal relationships, as female power and authority fluctuated, negotiated on an individual basis. Furthermore, correspondence highlights the important political roles played by early modern women. Female letter-writers were integral in cultivating and maintaining patronage and kinship networks; they were active as suitors for crown favour, and operated as political intermediaries and patrons in their own right, using letters to elicit influence. Letters thus help to locate differing forms of female power within the family, locality and occasionally on the wider political stage, and offer invaluable primary evidence from which to reconstruct the lives of early modern women.
Routledge's Complete Letter Writer for Ladies and Gentlemen in Society in Love and in Business ...
Author: Arnold VilliersBeeton's Complete Letter Writer for Ladies and Gentlemen - A Useful Companion of Epistolary Materials Gathered from the Best Sources and Adapted to Su
Author: AnonPublisher: Pomona Press
ISBN: 1406791067
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Contents Include: Invitations - Commissions - Letters from and to School - Letters from and to a Governess - Applications for Employment - Correspondence with a View to matrimony - Miscellaneous Correspondence
The Complete Letter-writer for Ladies and Gentlemen Containing Specimen Letters on a Variety of Subjects...
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ISBN: 9780706310917
Category : Letter writing
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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