num_pages: 232
description: Explored in this book are women's contributions to letter writing in western Europe from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries. The essays represent the first attempt to chart medieval women's achievements in epistolarity, and the contributions to this volume situate the women writers in a historical context and employ a variety of feminist approaches.
language: English
title: Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre
titlecomplete: Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre (The Middle Ages Series)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press