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The letter is an important genre of early modern women’s literary production. The editing of letters written by English women between 1580 and 1760 is a long-standing but constantly evolving tradition. Through the early-modern period women’s letters were collated, emended, adapted, copied and circulated in manuscript amongst familiars and more widely. In print women’s letters had an even broader circulation, however. Print letters are important to understanding the place of women’s letter writing, because in print, the idea of the woman writer was established and disseminated. To redress this oversight, this chapter surveys approaches to the editing of English women’s letters for print ranging from the generic mode of epistolary manuals published from the sixteenth century onwards, to sensationalist political publication of the private letters of specific women during the English Civil War, the self-edited letters of literati published from the late seventeenth century and through the eighteenth, posthumous publication, nineteenth-century antiquarianism, twentieth-century scholarly editing, and the recent advent of databases. Whereas some editorial approaches categorize the letter writer only as a type, such as a woman writer, or a lady of quality, for example, others valorize the identity of the individual writer.
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