The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763)

The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763)
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 450
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781527553408
ISBN-13 : 152755340X
Rating : 4/5 (40X Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763) by : Alain Kerhervé

Download or read book The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763) written by Alain Kerhervé and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other books, letter-writing manuals provided a possible solution. Although more than 160 editions can be traced for the eighteenth century, most manuals were largely intended for men. As a consequence, when The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was released in London in 1763, it was the first manual to be exclusively destined for women in eighteenth-century Britain. Even though it was published anonymously, several elements tend to show that it must have been edited by Edward Kimber. It was reprinted in Dublin in 1763 and in London in 1765 and largely circulated. The reasons for its success may have come from its concern in epistolary rhetoric, its original organisation, or the entertainment provided by examples coming from different sources, among which letters by Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Mary Collier, or the Marquise de Lambert. It also provided women with a variety of subjects which were supposed to be part of their sphere of interest, and others which were not, thus questioning a number of pre-conceived ideas on women and their way of writing with or without propriety. Unedited since 1765, the manual is now presented with introduction, notes and two indices focusing on the issues of sources, society and epistolary writing.

The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763) Related Books

The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763)
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Alain Kerhervé
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-22 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

GET EBOOK

How did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other books, letter-writing manuals provided a possible solution. Although more than 160
Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Paula R. Backscheider
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-29 - Publisher: JHU Press

GET EBOOK

Elizabeth Singer Rowe played a pivotal role in the development of the novel during the eighteenth century. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of th
Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Carol Poster
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

GET EBOOK

Once nearly as ubiquitous as dictionaries and cookbooks are today, letter-writing manuals and their predecessors served to instruct individuals not only on the
A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Kevin J. Hayes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-05 - Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

GET EBOOK

A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf represents a significant contribution to the study of the intellectual life of women in British North America. Kevin J. Hayes stu
The Coquette and The Boarding School
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: Hannah Webster Foster
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-14 - Publisher: Broadview Press

GET EBOOK

Hannah Webster Foster based The Coquette on the true story of Elizabeth Whitman, an unmarried woman who died in childbirth in New England. Fictionalizing Whitma