A New-World Model of Female Epistolarity: The Correspondence of Marie de L'incarnation

Authors

  • Carla Zecher

Abstract

Marie de l'Incarnation's Correspondence comprises the missives of a Touraine bourgeoise widow, mother, tradeswoman, mystic, and missionary educator. The unique circumstances of Marie's letters - the fact that her son became her editor - problematizes the distinction between male lettres and female ignorants that typically guided seventeenth-century thinking with regard to women's epistolary writing.

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Published

1996-06-06

How to Cite

Zecher, C. (1996). A New-World Model of Female Epistolarity: The Correspondence of Marie de L’incarnation. Studies in Canadian Literature, 21(2). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/8251

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Volume 21, Number 2 (1996)

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