Cover of 800 Years of Women's Letters

800 Years of Women's Letters

by Olga Kenyon · 1992

+ Want to read

Few books offer such an historical panorama of women's issues in such a small space. A remarkable voyage through time, cultures, and ways of being female.

Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Genre
historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
feminismfeminismMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Form
epistolaryepistolaryMore like thisLess of this

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare pricesHardcover

Liked 800 Years of Women's Letters? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked 800 Years of Women's Letters. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present Lisa Grunwald, Stephen J. Adler · 2005 Shares nonfiction, letters, history
  2. More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience · 2015 Shares nonfiction, letters, epistolary
  3. Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience · 2013 Shares nonfiction, letters, history
  4. The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time David H. Lowenherz · 2002 Shares nonfiction, letters, epistolary
See more recommendations →

“People who read 800 Years of Women's Letters tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey · 1982
  2. Eyewitness to History John Carey · 1987
  3. Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters Merlin Holland · 1995
  4. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 Anne M. Butler · 1983

“If you want more of the same (history about feminism), start with these.”

  1. The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen Jane Austen, Penelope Hughes-Hallett · 1996
  2. Dear Mrs. Kennedy: The World Shares Its Grief, Letters November 1963 Jay Mulvaney, Paul de Angelis · 2010
  3. Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Celebrating the Joys of Letter Writing Nina Sankovitch · 2012
  4. Love Letters of Great Men and Women · 2009

“If it was the letters that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing Simon Garfield · 2013
  2. Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children Dorie McCullough Lawson · 2004
  3. A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller, 1932-1953 Anais Nin, Henry Miller · 1965
  4. Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald · 2015

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Women of the Bible: A One-Year Devotional Study of Women in Scripture Ann Spangler, Jean E. Syswerda · 1999
  2. True Grit: Women Taking on the World, for God's Sake Deborah Meroff · 2004
  3. The elusive Eden Richard B. Rice · 1988
  4. The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship Marilyn Yalom · 2015

Report a problem