Letters Between Mothers and Daughters

Herausgeber: Caine, Barbara

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using detailed case studies, this book explores the continuities and changes in letters between mothers and daughters in Europe over several centuries. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women's History Review.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138667990
• ISBN-10: 1138667994
• Artikelnr.: 44269330

Autorenporträt

Barbara Caine is Professor of History and Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her previous publications include Histories of British feminism, collective biographies of the Potter and Strachey families and a general book on biography and history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Letters between Mothers and Daughters 1. Poor Maternity: Clare
of Assisi's letters to Agnes of Prague 2. Social Negotiations in
Correspondence between Mothers and Daughters in Tudor and Early Stuart
England 3. What's Love Got to Do with It? Dynastic Politics and Motherhood
in the Letters of Eleonora of Aragon and her Daughters 4. 'My daughter, my
dear': the correspondence of Catherine de Médicis and Elisabeth de Valois
5. Tenderness, Tittle-tattle and Truth in Mother-Daughter Letters: Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wortley Montagu Stuart, Countess of Bute, and
Lady Louisa Stuart 6. 'A conscientious and well-informed Victorian mother':
Elizabeth Gaskell's letters to her daughters 7. From 'Dearest Mama' to
'Dear Mother': changing styles in early twentieth-century letters from
daughters to mothers