European Women’s Letter-Writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries

This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over this period.

Clare Monagle is Professor of History in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University. Her books include Orthodoxy and Controversy in Twelfth-Century Religious Discourse for Brepols in 2013, and Scholastic Affect in 2020, for Cambridge University Press Elements series. Carolyn James is Cassamarca Professor of History at Monash University. Her latest monograph, A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga 1490-1519, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. David Garrioch is Emeritus Professor at Monash University and author of The Making of Revolutionary Paris (University of California Press, 2002). He recently edited The Republic of Skill. Artisan Mobility, Innovation, and the Circulation of Knowledge in Premodern Europe(Brill, 2022). Barbara Caine is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney. Her works include Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family (OUP, 2005), and Biography and History (Palgrave, 2010) and Women and the Autobiographical Impulse: a History (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2023)