This book presents a new history of English women's intellectual worlds, using private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. It is the first detailed study to recognise correspondence as the central social practice in the development of female intellectual thought c. 1650-1750, and demonstrates that, despite lacking access to higher education, a great many women of the period found ways of engaging with the life of the mind. Women of letters explores the ways in which women related to their intellectual pursuits and unpacks their complex motivations for engaging in...
This book presents a new history of English women's intellectual worlds, using private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. It...
What does material culture tell us about gendered identities and how does gender reveal the meaning of spaces and things? If we look at the objects that we own, covet and which surround us in our everyday culture, there is a clear connection between ideas about gender and the material world. This book explores the material culture of the past to shed light on historical experiences and identities. Some essays focus on specific objects, such as an eighteenth-century jug or a twentieth-century powder puff, others on broader material environments, such as the sixteenth-century guild or the...
What does material culture tell us about gendered identities and how does gender reveal the meaning of spaces and things? If we look at the object...
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. -- .
Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative ex...
