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Author:   Rebecca Earle
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780367888206

ISBN 10:   0367888203
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: Introduction: Letters, writers and the historian, Rebecca Earle; Part One: The Letter Collection: ’Paper Visits’: The post-restoration letter as seen through the Verney Archive, Susan Whyman; The immigrant letter between positivism and populism: American historians’ uses of personal correspondence, David Gerber; Part Two: Letters, the Family and Public Life: Formative ventures: eighteenth-century commercial letters and the articulation of experience, Toby Ditz; The Sentimental Ambassador: The letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-1781, Kate Teltscher; Letters, social networks and the embedded economy in Sweden: some remarks on the Swedish bourgeoisie, 1800-1850, Ylva Hasselberg; Part Three: Women and the Letter Form: A woman writing a letter, Carolyn Steedman; The power to die: Emily Dickinson’s letters of consolation, Daria Donnelly; ’You let a weeping woman call you home?’: Private correspondence during the first world war in Austria and Germany, Christine Hämmerle; ’Letters are everything these days’: Mothers and letters in the second world war, Jenny Hartley; Bibliography; Index.

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Rebecca Earle is a lecturer in the History Department at the University of warwick.

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