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. The book argues that many
women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and
demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the
development of ideas. Until now, it has been assumed that women's
intellectual opportunities were curtailed by their confinement in
the home. This book illuminates the household as a vibrant site of
intellectual thought and expression. Amidst the catalogue of
day-to-day news in women's letters are sections dedicated to the
discussion of books, plays and ideas. Through these personal
epistles, Women of letters offers a fresh interpretation of
intellectual life in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth
centuries, one that champions the ephemeral and the fleeting in
order to rediscover women's lives and minds. This book is relevant
to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality.
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