Fr. 44.50

Women of Letters - Gender, Writing and the Life of the Mind in Early Modern England

Inglese · Tascabile

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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.

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List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Women and learning
1. Getting started
2. Becoming an intellectual
Part II: Putting pen to paper
3. Writing and thinking
4. Spaces for writing
Part III: Hearts and minds
5. Connecting reason and emotion
6. A seedbed for change
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

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Leonie Hannan is Research Fellow in the School of History and Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast

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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. -- .

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