The Complete Letter-writer
Title | The Complete Letter-writer PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 1772 |
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The Complete Letter-writer: Or, New and Polite English Secretary. Containing Directions for Writing Letters on All Occasions ... To which is Prefix'd, an Easy and Compendious Grammar of the English Tongue ... The Second Edition
Title | The Complete Letter-writer: Or, New and Polite English Secretary. Containing Directions for Writing Letters on All Occasions ... To which is Prefix'd, an Easy and Compendious Grammar of the English Tongue ... The Second Edition PDF eBook |
Author | COMPLETE LETTER-WRITER. |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 1756 |
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The Complete Letter-writer
Title | The Complete Letter-writer PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1778 |
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The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763)
Title | The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763) PDF eBook |
Author | Alain Kerhervé |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 2020-05-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 152755340X |
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 Complete Letter-writer, Etc
Title | The Complete Letter-writer, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Letter-Writer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 1810 |
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The Complete Letter-writer
Title | The Complete Letter-writer PDF eBook |
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Release | 1758 |
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The Letter Writer
Title | The Letter Writer PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Rinaldi |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 229 |
Release | 2010-05-24 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0547416164 |
“An 11-year-old girl’s inadvertent role in the infamous Nat Turner slave uprising of 1831 dramatically alters her life” in this heartrending novel (Kirkus Reviews). Harriet Whitehead is an outsider in her own family. She feels accepted and important only when she is entrusted to write letters for her blind stepmother. Then Nat Turner, a slave preacher, arrives on her family’s plantation and Harriet befriends him, entranced by his gentle manner and eloquent sermons about an all-forgiving God. When Nat asks Harriet for a map of the county to help him spread the word, she draws it for him, wanting to be part of something important. But the map turns out to be the missing piece that sets Nat’s secret plan in motion—and makes Harriet an unwitting accomplice to the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history. In The Letter Writer, award-winning historical novelist Ann Rinaldi has created a bold portrait of antebellum Virginia and of an ordinary young girl thrust into a situation beyond her control, and must make peace with herself in the wake of tragedy.