Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-310) and index.
Contents:
Letters and letter-writers -- The composition of letters -- Female literacy and the social conventions of letter-writing -- Delivery, reception, and reading -- The functions of letter-writing -- Social relations inscribed in correspondence -- Marital correspondence -- Letters of petition.
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