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- In her recent work on love in Georgian England, material culture historian Sally Holloway has argued that eighteenth-century letter-writing and the birth of the epistolary novel marked a cultural shift towards prioritizing correspondence as a medium for identity formation and emotional expression, especially in romantic relationships. 6 She further argues that romantic culture adapted to include letter-writing as a distinct component of courtship in the Georgian period and that the exchange of ...
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