Women's Letters

Women's Letters
Title Women's Letters PDF eBook
Author Lisa Grunwald
Publisher Dial Press Trade Paperback
Pages 833
Release 2009-01-21
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0307493334

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Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.

Becoming a Woman of Letters

Becoming a Woman of Letters
Title Becoming a Woman of Letters PDF eBook
Author Linda H. Peterson
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 316
Release 2021-06-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1400833256

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During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. How did these women enter the literary profession; meet the demands of editors, publishers, booksellers, and reviewers; and achieve distinction as "women of letters"? Becoming a Woman of Letters examines the various ways women writers negotiated the market realities of authorship, and looks at the myths and models women writers constructed to elevate their place in the profession. Drawing from letters, contracts, and other archival material, Linda Peterson details the careers of various women authors from the Victorian period. Some, like Harriet Martineau, adopted the practices of their male counterparts and wrote for periodicals before producing a best seller; others, like Mary Howitt and Alice Meynell, began in literary partnerships with their husbands and pursued independent careers later in life; and yet others, like Charlotte Brontë, and her successors Charlotte Riddell and Mary Cholmondeley, wrote from obscure parsonages or isolated villages, hoping an acclaimed novel might spark a meteoric rise to fame. Peterson considers these women authors' successes and failures--the critical esteem that led to financial rewards and lasting reputations, as well as the initial successes undermined by publishing trends and pressures. Exploring the burgeoning print culture and the rise of new genres available to Victorian women authors, this book provides a comprehensive account of the flowering of literary professionalism in the nineteenth century.

Romantic Correspondence

Romantic Correspondence
Title Romantic Correspondence PDF eBook
Author Mary A. Favret
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 288
Release 2004
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780521604284

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This study of correspondence in the Romantic period calls into question the common notion that letters are a particularly 'romantic', personal, and ultimately feminine form of writing.

The Little Women Letters

The Little Women Letters
Title The Little Women Letters PDF eBook
Author Gabrielle Donnelly
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 386
Release 2012-06-05
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1451617194

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With her older sister planning a wedding and her younger sister preparing to launch a career on the stage, Lulu can't help but feel like the failure of the Atwater family. Lulu loves her sisters dearly and wants nothing but the best for them, but she finds herself stuck in a rut. When her mother sends her to look for some old family recipes in the attic, she stumbles across a collection of letters written by her great-great-grandmother Josephine March. Jo writes in detail about every aspect of her life: her older sister Meg's new home and family; her younger sister Amy's many admirers; the family's shared grief over losing Beth; and her own feelings towards a handsome young German. As Lulu delves deeper into the lives of the March sisters, she finds solace and guidance, but can her great-great-grandmother help Lulu find a place in a world so different from the one Jo knew?--From publisher description.

Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters

Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters
Title Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters PDF eBook
Author Dena Goodman
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 410
Release 2009
Genre History
ISBN 9780801475450

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In 18th century France, letter writing became extremely fashionable, particularly amongst women. In this work, Dena Goodman opens up the world of these women though the letters which they wrote. Concentrating on the letters of four women from different social backgrounds, she shows how they came to womanhood through their writing.

Emily Dickinson, Woman of Letters

Emily Dickinson, Woman of Letters
Title Emily Dickinson, Woman of Letters PDF eBook
Author Lewis Turco
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 180
Release 1993-01-01
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780791414170

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Buried in Emily Dickinson's letters are many lines that are stunningly beautiful, as beautiful as any to be found in her poems. Lewis Turco has taken some of these lines and written poems from them, on them, and around them. This volume, then, is a collaboration between two writers, one a 19th-century woman whose work became known to most readers only in the 20th century, and the other a post-modernist man of letters--an award-winning poet, critic, and scholar. In addition to the poems collected here, Turco has written an informative introduction and included several essays by feminist critics and other scholars who discuss various aspects of Emily Dickinson's letters. Emily Dickinson, Woman of Letters is therefore at once an addition to the Dickinson canon, a distinguished collection of contemporary poems, an important volume of critical scholarship in American literature, and a fascinating reading experience that will appeal to a wide audience of professionals and non-professionals alike.

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England
Title Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England PDF eBook
Author Margaret W. Ferguson
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 340
Release 2004-01-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780802087577

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Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period.