800 Years of Women's Letters
Published on 21. October 2011
320 pages
978-0-7524-7200-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 Letters reveals the depth, breadth and diversity of women's lives through the ages.
Here Heloise writes to Abelard of her undying devotion, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf correspond about life and writing, and Queen Victoria complains to Robert Peel about the neglect of Buckingham Palace. Many more women write letters that reveal the compassion, humour, love and tenacity with which they confront the often difficult circumstances of everyday life. This is an intriguing insight, and a rare opportunity to read the real words of real women, in their own intimate language.
Here Heloise writes to Abelard of her undying devotion, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf correspond about life and writing, and Queen Victoria complains to Robert Peel about the neglect of Buckingham Palace. Many more women write letters that reveal the compassion, humour, love and tenacity with which they confront the often difficult circumstances of everyday life. This is an intriguing insight, and a rare opportunity to read the real words of real women, in their own intimate language.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
File size
1,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-7200-3 (9780752472003)
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Olga Kenyon
800 Years of Women's Letters
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approx. 02/2026
The History Press Ltd
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800 Years of Women's Letters
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11/2009
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Persons
OLGA KENYON is a well-respected writer and academic. She has lectured at Bradford University and Morley College, where she was Head of Humanities. She has also lectured for the Open University, in the Arts faculty, and specialised in black women's literature. She lived and taught in Manchester.
Content
- 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
