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Women of Letters

Gender, Writing and the Life of the Mind in Early Modern England. Gender in History

By (author) Leonie Hannan
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Manchester University Press, Manchester, United Kingdom
Published: 28th Jun 2018
Dimensions: w 132mm h 212mm d 19mm
Weight: 285g
ISBN-10: 1526127199
ISBN-13: 9781526127198
Barcode No: 9781526127198
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Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the development of ideas. Until now, it has been assumed that women's intellectual opportunities were curtailed by their confinement in the home. This book illuminates the household as a vibrant site of intellectual thought and expression. Amidst the catalogue of day-to-day news in women's letters are sections dedicated to the discussion of books, plays and ideas. Through these personal epistles, Women of letters offers a fresh interpretation of intellectual life in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, one that champions the ephemeral and the fleeting in order to rediscover women's lives and minds. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality. -- .

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