Title Atlantic families : lives and letters in the later eighteenth century / Sarah M.S. Pearsall.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HQ613 .P44 2010	Available	---

Edition	1st pbk. ed.
Description	x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-281) and index.
Contents	1. Fractured families: the perils and possibilities of Atlantic distance -- 2. Familiarity in life and letters -- 3. Sensibility in life and letters -- 4. Credit in life and letters -- 5. The repentant son and the unforgiving father: making a man of feeling, a man of credit -- 6. The farewell between husband and wife: the politics of family feeling -- 7. The old husband and the young wife: scandal, feeling, and distance
Subject	Families -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Families.
	Great Britain.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Families -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	United States.
	English letters -- History and criticism.
	English letters.
	American letters -- History and criticism.
	American letters.
	Letter writing -- History -- 18th century.
	Letter writing.
ISBN	9780199600441 paperback
	0199600449 paperback