Letters Between Mothers and Daughters
There are now many studies of family letters in Europe, but most of them focus on marital letters and letters between parents, especially mothers, and their sons. Little attention has been paid to the letters to and from daughters. This volume seeks to begin filling that gap by exploring the continuities and changes evident in the letters written between mothers and daughters over several centuries. Some of these changes reflect the history of letters and the ways that they were written and delivered, especially the move from the use of scribes and couriers in the medieval and early modern period, which made both the writing and reading of letters a public affair, to the use of pens and the situation in which letters were able to be written in private and read only by the person to whom they were addressed. But the letters also reveal the changing nature of the mother and daughter relationship, as the formal and more distant ties evident in the early period, in which dynastic and other matters were often more important to a mother than her daughters personal happiness, were replaced by closer and more intimate ties and a concern with particular personalities and individual needs. This book was originally published as a special issue of Womens History Review.
Barbara Caine is a Professor of History and Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family (2005), Biography and History (2010), and Gendering European History: 17801920 (2000). She is also the editor of Friendship: A History (2009) and the Companion to Womens Historical Writing (2005), with Spongberg and Curthoys.
Letters Between Mothers and Daughters
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Contents
Barbara Caine
Clare Monagle
James Daybell
Carolyn James
Susan Broomhall
Diana G. Barnes
Pauline Nestor
Barbara Caine
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Womens History Review, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Barbara Caine
Womens History Review, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015) pp. 483489
Clare Monagle
Womens History Review, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015) pp. 490501
James Daybell
Womens History Review, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015) pp. 502527
Carolyn James
Womens History Review, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015) pp. 528547
Susan Broomhall
Womens History Review, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015) pp. 548569
Diana G. Barnes
Womens History Review, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015) pp. 570590
Pauline Nestor
Womens History Review, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015) pp. 591602
Barbara Caine
Womens History Review, volume 24, issue 4 (August 2015) pp. 603620
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Diana G. Barnes is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. She is the author of Epistolary Community in Print, 15801664 (2013), and articles on the letters of Margaret Cavendish, Dorothy Osborne, and Mary Wortley Montagu. She is currently beginning a new book project provisionally entitled The Politics of Civility: Historicising Early Modern Genres of Community.
Susan Broomhall is a Professor of Early Modern History and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. She was previously a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence on the History of Emotions. She is a historian of early modern Europe, and specialises in the history of women and gender, and emotions. She is the author of the forthcoming book Dynastic Colonialism: Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau (2016), with Jacqueline Van Gent.
Barbara Caine is a Professor of History and Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family (2005), Biography and History (2010), and Gendering European History: 17801920 (2000). She is also the editor of Friendship: A History (2009) and the Companion to Womens Historical Writing (2005), with Spongberg and Curthoys.
James Daybell is a Professor of Early Modern British History at Plymouth University, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of The Material Letter in Early Modern England: Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 15121635 (2012) and Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England (2006), and the editor of Early Modern Womens Letter-Writing, 14501700 (2001), Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 14501700 (2004), and Material Readings of Early Modern Culture, 15801730 (2010), with Peter Hinds.
Carolyn James is a Cassamarca Associate Professor in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She has edited the letters of the fifteenth-century Italian writer, Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti, as well as analysed his literary works; has translated (with Antonio Pagliaro) the late-medieval letters of Margherita Datini; and is currently working on a monograph entitled A Renaissance Marriage: Isabella dEste and Francesco Gonzaga.
Clare Monagle is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and holds a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council. She is the author of
