Becoming a woman in the age of letters
By: Dena Goodman.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780801447617; 9780801475450
Subjects: French letters -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Letter writing, French -- History -- 18th century; Women -- France -- Correspondence; Women -- France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Women -- Education -- France -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Picturing the subject : portrait of a lady as letter writer; title: Designing an education for young ladies; title: Writing as discipline : instruction in penmanship and orthography; title: Epistolary education : learning to be natural; title: Supplying the female letter writer; title: The writing desk : furniture of the modern self; title: Coming of age : young ladies, privacy, and epistolary practice; title: Epistolary reasoning : writing about marriage; title: Marriage, motherhood, and the letter-writing woman.