| Description |
1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Gender in history
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Gender in history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-200) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Literacy, education and the life of the mind; Women's intellectual lives in an era of Enlightenment; Letters and letter-writing; Sites and communities; Sources; Material, spatial and textual: approaches to studying letters; The material; The spatial; The textual; Notes; Part I Women and learning; 1 Getting started; Literacy and self-education; Expectations of intellectual life; Access to information; Notes. |
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2 Becoming an 'intellectual'Intellectual identities; The 'learned lady' and the amateur intellectual; Lifecycle and the intellectual biography; Female intellect, originality and the public domain; Notes; Part II Putting pen to paper; 3 Writing and thinking; The epistolary academy; Address and formality; Writing and thinking: the importance of correspondence; The content of letters; Networks and contacts; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Spaces for writing; The home as a site of learning; Spaces for reading and writing; Time and the domestic space; Privacy and the psychology of space; Imagined spaces. |
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NotesPart III Hearts and minds; 5 Connecting reason and emotion; Mind and body; Epistolary relationships; Letters and perfect friendship; Letter-writing as self-help; Conclusion; Notes; 6 A seedbed for change; Letters; Gender; Space; The next generation; Notes; Appendix; Bibliography; Primary sources; Manuscript; Bedfordshire and Luton Archive Service; Bodleian Library; British Library; Derbyshire Record Office; East Sussex Record Office, The Keep Archives; Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies; Library of the Society of Friends; Print; Secondary sources; Unpublished; Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.
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Women intellectuals. |
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Great Britain. |
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Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
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Women. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
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Intellectual life. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1600-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Records and correspondence.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hannan, Leonie. Women of letters. 0719099420 9780719099427 (OCoLC)942707149 |
| ISBN |
9781526109750 (electronic book) |
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1526109751 (electronic book) |
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1784997692 (electronic book) |
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9781784997694 (electronic book) |
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0719099420 |
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9780719099427 |
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