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Letters Between Mothers and Daughters (Paperback)
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Letters Between Mothers and Daughters (Paperback)
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There are now many studies of family letters in Europe, but most of
them focus on marital letters and letters between parents,
especially mothers, and their sons. Little attention has been paid
to the letters to and from daughters. This volume seeks to begin
filling that gap by exploring the continuities and changes evident
in the letters written between mothers and daughters over several
centuries. Some of these changes reflect the history of letters and
the ways that they were written and delivered, especially the move
from the use of scribes and couriers in the medieval and early
modern period, which made both the writing and reading of letters a
public affair, to the use of pens and the situation in which
letters were able to be written in private and read only by the
person to whom they were addressed. But the letters also reveal the
changing nature of the mother and daughter relationship, as the
formal and more distant ties evident in the early period, in which
dynastic and other matters were often more important to a mother
than her daughter's personal happiness, were replaced by closer and
more intimate ties and a concern with particular personalities and
individual needs. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Women's History Review.
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