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800 Years of Women's Letters - Olga Kenyon

In this engrossing anthology, the first truly comprehensive study of women's letters, Olga Kenyon explores the tradition of female letter-writing from the twelfth century to the present day. One of the few 'allowable' forms of written expressions open to women until the eighteenth century - even Jane Austen at first pretended her drawing-room scribbling was letters rater than the novel she was really working on - these private letters detail their daily life, their sorrows and joys, small achievements and the great rites of passage of birth, death and marriage.Here is Heloise writing to Abelard's superior wisdom' from twelfth-century Paris of 'how much I have lost in you'; Margaret Paston lamenting to her lawyer husband in London the attacks on their estate during the Wars of the Roses; Elizabeth I firmly but tactfully refusing Erik of Sweden's offer of marriage as she 'highly commends this single life'; Queen Victoria complaining to Sir Robert Peel about the 'disgrace' in the neglect of Buckingham Palace; Florence Nightingale writing feelingly to her aunt that 'There is not an official who would not burn me like Joan of Arc if he could, but they know the War Office cannot turn me out because the country is with me'; Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf exchanging intimate thoughts on their lives and writing; and many more lesser-known women whose writing reveals much of their day-to-day lives and the sometimes restricted world they inhabited.Both entertaining and informative, this book [provides a captivating insight into past women's lives, and will also be an invaluable historical resource.Kobiety w historii, epistolografia
Autor: Olga Kenyon
Wydawnictwo: Sutton Publishing
Rok wydania: 2002
Stron: 298
ISBN: 0-7[zasłonięte]509-07-8
EAN: 978[zasłonięte][zasłonięte]09072
Format: 15,5/23,5cm
Oprawa: miękka
Język: angielski


Stan: nowa, nie używana