Love letters and writing practices: On écritures intimes in the nineteenth century

Journal of Family History

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 232-239

  Lyons, Martyn ^a  

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DOI: 10.1177/036319909902400206     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Roger Chartier, ed., La Correspondance: Les usages de la lettre au XIXe siècle (Paris: Fayard, 1991).
2. Cécile Dauphin et al., eds., Ces Bonnes Lettres: Une correspondance familiale au XIXe siècle (Paris: Albin Michel, 1995).
3. See Lisa Jardine, "Reading and the Technology of Textual Affect: Erasmus' Familiar Letters and Shakespeare's King Lear," in The Practice and Representation of Reading in England, eds. James Raven et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), chap. 5; Choderlos de Laclos, Liaisons Dangéreuses, letter 105, ́Vous voyez bien que, quand vous écrivez à quelqu'un, c'est pour lui et non pas pour vous: Vous devez donc moins chercher à lui dire ce que vous pensez, que ce qui lui plaît davantage."
4. See Lisa Jardine, "Reading and the Technology of Textual Affect: Erasmus' Familiar Letters and Shakespeare's King Lear," in The Practice and Representation of Reading in England, eds. James Raven et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), chap. 5; Choderlos de Laclos, Liaisons Dangéreuses, letter 105, ́Vous voyez bien que, quand vous écrivez à quelqu'un, c'est pour lui et non pas pour vous: Vous devez donc moins chercher à lui dire ce que vous pensez, que ce qui lui plaît davantage."
5. Jean-Louis Cornille, "L'Assignation, analyse d'un pacte épistolaire," in Les Correspondances: Problématique et économie d'un "genre littéraire", eds. Jean-Louis Bonnat et al. (Nantes, France: Actes du colloque de Nantes, 1983), 34.
6. Roland Barthes, "La Lettre d'Amour," in Fragments d'un Discours Amoureux (Paris, 1977), 187-89.
7. Chartier, La Correspondance, 369.
8. Cécile Dauphin, "Pour une histoire de la correspondance familiale," Romantisme 90 (1995): 92-93.
9. Lucile Le Verrier, Journal d'une jeune fille Second Empire, 1866-78, ed. Lionel Mirisch (Cadeilhan, France, 1994). "As for all the daily goings-on, I write them in a diary. Then, when I want to record some reflections which are too long for the diary and too secret for my correspondence, I slip them in here.
10. Chartier, La Correspondance, 87.
11. Ibid., 42-60.
12. Ibid., 39. See also David Vincent, Literacy and Popular Culture in England, 1750-1914 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 39; New South Wales PMG's Annual Report, 1901.
13. Ibid., 39. See also David Vincent, Literacy and Popular Culture in England, 1750-1914 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 39; New South Wales PMG's Annual Report, 1901.
14. Ibid., 39. See also David Vincent, Literacy and Popular Culture in England, 1750-1914 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 39; New South Wales PMG's Annual Report, 1901.
15. Michelle Perrot, "Le Secret de la Correspondance au XIXe siècle," in L'Epistolarité à travers les siècles, eds. Mireille Bossis and Charles A. Porter (Stuttgart, Germany: Actes du colloque de Cérisy, 1990), 184-88.
16. Maguy de Saint-Laurent, "Cent Lieues et Dix-Huit Jours: Lettres d'Amour en 1844," in Les Correspondances, eds. Bonnat et al., 81.
17. Dauphin et al., Ces Bonnes Lettres, 161-77.
18. Una B. Porter, ed., Growing Together: Letters between F. J. Cato and Frances Bethune, 1881-84 (Carlton, Australia, privately published, 1981), letter 181, September 13, 1883.
19. Dauphin et al., Ces Bonnes Lettres.
20. Porter, Growing Together, letter 174, August 20, 1883, and letter 213, January 3, 1884.
21. Ibid., letter 14.
22. Ibid., letter 165, July 12, 1883.
23. Ibid., letter 259, June 26, 1884.
24. Ibid., letter 174, August 20, 1883.
25. Ibid., letter 236, March 31, 1884.
26. Ibid., letters 34 and 38.
27. Ibid., letter 274, August 21, 1884.
28. Ibid., letter 243, April 25, 1884.
29. Ibid., letter 293, November 3, 1884.
30. Ibid.
31. Bernard Bray, "Treize Propos sur la lettre d'amour," in L'Epistolarité à travers les siècles, eds. Bossis and Porter, 40-47.
32. Marie-Claire Grassi, "Friends and Lovers or the Codification of Intimacy," Yale French Studies 71 (1986): 77-92.
33. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, ed. J. Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 72.
34. Marie-Claire Grassi, "Des Lettres qui parlent d'amour," Romantisme 68 (1990): 23-32.