Katherine Paston and Brilliana Harley: Maternal Letters and the Genre of Mother's Advice

Anselment focuses on the collection of private correspondence written by Katherine Paston and Brilliana Harley to their sons. The 43 Paston letters and the 197 Harley letters reflect a spirituality common to published maternal advice; their spontaneity, however, conveys a new dimension of intimacy a...

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Published inStudies in philology Vol. 101; no. 4; pp. 431 - 453
Main Author Anselment, Raymond A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 01.10.2004
The University of North Carolina Press
Subjects
Blessings
Correspondence
Diseases
Epistolography
Faith
Harley, Brilliana
Legacies
Mothers
Parliaments
Paston, Katherine
Personal relationships
Sons
Universities
Written correspondence
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Summary:Anselment focuses on the collection of private correspondence written by Katherine Paston and Brilliana Harley to their sons. The 43 Paston letters and the 197 Harley letters reflect a spirituality common to published maternal advice; their spontaneity, however, conveys a new dimension of intimacy and affection.
ISSN:0039-3738
1543-0383
1543-0383
DOI:10.1353/sip.2004.0018