Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Note to the Reader | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Images | |
Picturing the Subject: Portrait of a Lady as Letter Writer | p. 19 |
Education | |
Designing an Education for Young Ladies | p. 63 |
Writing as Discipline: Instruction in Penmanship and Orthography | p. 100 |
Epistolary Education: Learning to Be Natural | p. 133 |
The World of Goods | |
Supplying the Female Letter Writer | p. 161 |
The Writing Desk: Furniture of the Modern Self | p. 199 |
Letters | |
Coming of Age: Young Ladies, Privacy, and Epistolary Practice | p. 247 |
Epistolary Reasoning: Writing about Marriage | p. 274 |
Marriage, Motherhood, and the Letter-Writing Woman | p. 307 |
Conclusion | p. 332 |
Notes | p. 339 |
Index | p. 377 |
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