Rebecca Earle, ed Epistolary Selves...

Rebecca Earle, ed Epistolary Selves: Letters and Letter-Writers, 1600-1945 Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999 231 pp ISBN 1-84014-210-3 $8995

Using correspondence as biographical material incline differentlys biography on its head in several ways. First, the hurdle that celebrity and significance place against our interest is remov since each letter temporarily places its writer at the center of the world, for as drawn out as we are reading his or her fancys The letters of famous race are more frequently published and studied than are those of the ordinary; however, the eminent are