Mary Beth Norton

I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer

Letters on Love and Marriage from the World's First Personal Advice Column

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating collection of questions and answers about courtship, marriage, love, and sex from a seventeenth-century periodical

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780691253992
• ISBN-10: 0691253994
• Artikelnr.: 71848990

Autorenporträt

Mary Beth Norton is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emerita of American History at Cornell University. Her books include the Pulitzer Prize–finalist Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power in the Forming of American Society; 1774: The Long Year of Revolution, winner of the George Washington Prize; In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 ; and Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women.