Cousins in Love: The Letters of Lydia DuGard, 1665-1672 : with a New Edition of The Marriages of Cousin Germans by Samuel DuGardArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in conjunction with Renaissance English Text Society, 2003 - 218 páginas Lydia loved her cousin Samuel, and began a correspondence with him when she was 15 that lasted until they were married seven years later. They tell of her blossoming love and her life in a small English village in Warwickshire. Being a guy, he responded to her love letters with a treatise, The Marriages of Cousin Germans, Vindicated from the Censures of Unlawfullnesse, and Inexpediency." His text follows her 32 letters, which face pages of explanatory notes. |
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... women ) 57 it is easy to see that women played an essential role in " kinkeeping . " 58 That is , very often the duty and obligation of maintaining kin contact fell to women . They did this not only out of obligation , but also because ...
... women ) 57 it is easy to see that women played an essential role in " kinkeeping . " 58 That is , very often the duty and obligation of maintaining kin contact fell to women . They did this not only out of obligation , but also because ...
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... women , relatives , and neighbors : all of these women were literate . Her aunt , her sister , her cousins , in London , Coventry , Worcester , and Barford , her neighborhood friends , both young and old , all wrote letters routinely ...
... women , relatives , and neighbors : all of these women were literate . Her aunt , her sister , her cousins , in London , Coventry , Worcester , and Barford , her neighborhood friends , both young and old , all wrote letters routinely ...
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... women in the seven- teenth century are difficult to ascertain . Scholars today assume the literacy rate of women to be quite low , especially in the provinces and outside the gentry . However , Lydia's letters give anecdotal evidence ...
... women in the seven- teenth century are difficult to ascertain . Scholars today assume the literacy rate of women to be quite low , especially in the provinces and outside the gentry . However , Lydia's letters give anecdotal evidence ...
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Editorial Procedures | 28 |
Introduction to The Marriages of Cousin Germans | 139 |
Biographical Appendix | 189 |
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