Women and Letters in Print

Diana G Barnes

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_24-1

Women and Letters in Print

Diana G Barnes

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Over the period 1500–1700 the letter was one of the most pervasive print genres. From the outset women's letters were represented in the various modes of print letter, ranging from epistolary manuals, miscellanies, and parodies to letters of friendship, love, and learning. Print letters harked back to the classical precedents of Ovid and Cicero that conferred dignity upon the practice, and those attributed to women gave public demonstration of their capacity for learning, wit, judgment, rhetoric, and astute social dialogue, and publicized their citizen-ship in the "republic of letters."

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Early Modern Women's Writing
Editors	Patricia Pender, Rosalind Smith
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	1-11
ISBN (Print)	9783030015374
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_24-1
Publication status	Published - 25 Sept 2024

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