Book description
This inspiring and fascinating book is the first truly
comprehensive study of women's letters ever published. Organised by
subject matter, and covering a wide range of topics from politics,
work and war, to childhood, love and sexual passion. '800 Years of
Women's Letter' reveals the depth, breadth and diversity of women's
lives through the ages. Here Holoise writes to Abelad of her undying
devotion, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woofl correspond about life
and writing, and Queen Victoria complains to Robert Peel about the
neglect of Buckingham Palace. Many more women write letters that
reveal the compassion, humour, love and tenacity with which they
confront the often difficult circumstances of everyday life. This is
an intriguing insight, and a rare opportunity to read the real words
of real women, in their own intimate language. "No literary form
is more revealing, more spontaneous of more individual than a
letter." P D James
