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Languages : en
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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
Author: LADIESPublisher:
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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: Routledge's Complete Letter Writer for Ladies and Gentlemen in Society in Love and in Business ...
Author: Arnold VilliersThe 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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Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Meredith K. RayPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802097049
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
During the Italian Renaissance, dozens of early modern writers published collections of private correspondence, using them as vehicles for self-presentation, self-promotion, social critique, and religious dissent. Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance examines the letter collections of women writers, arguing that these works were a studied performance of pervasive ideas about gender as well as genre, a form of self-fashioning that variously reflected, manipulated, and subverted cultural and literary conventions regarding femininity and masculinity. Meredith K. Ray presents letter collections from authors of diverse backgrounds, including a noblewoman, a courtesan, an actress, a nun, and a male writer who composed letters under female pseudonyms. Ray's study includes extensive new archival research and highlights a widespread interest in women's letter collections during the Italian Renaissance that suggests a deep curiosity about the female experience and a surprising openness to women's participation in this kind of literary production.
Women as Letter-writers
Author: Ada M. IngpenPublisher:
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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