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Yours Truly

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February 2014, no. 358

Yours Truly: Cathartic Confessions, Passionate Declarations and Vivid Recollections from Women of Letters edited by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire

Viking, $29.99 pb, 460 pp, 9780670077298

Yours Truly

by
February 2014, no. 358

The popularity of letter-writing has been in decline for years, and recent proposals to privatise Australia Post may accelerate this trend. In an age when an email reaches its recipient in mere micro-seconds, the impassioned letters between Miller and Nin, Stieglitz and O’Keeffe, or Queen Victoria’s estimated 3000 letters to her daughter ‘Vicky’ can seem like relics of a bygone time. It is safe to assume that in the museums of the twenty-second century, artefacts of the current era won’t appear in the form of framed letters written in fountain pen.

Sara Savage reviews 'Yours Truly: Cathartic Confessions,  Passionate Declarations and Vivid Recollections from Women of Letters', edited by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire

Yours Truly: Cathartic Confessions, Passionate Declarations and Vivid Recollections from Women of Letters

edited by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire

Viking, $29.99 pb, 460 pp, 9780670077298

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