RT Book, Section
T1 Variations from letter-writing manuals : «humble petitions» signed by women in Late Modern London
A1 Calvo Cortés, Nuria
A2 Jucker, Andreas H.
A2 Taavitsainen, Irma
AB ABSTRACT: The present study analyses two sets of 25 petitions each. They were signed by different women who possibly belonged to lower social ranks, and they were addressed to the governors of the Foundling Hospital and the Bank of England. These were most probably men who occupied high positions in society. The study focuses on the comparison between the information present in the manuals and the petitions selected for this study. The petitioners had different needs and their circumstances also varied. This is reflected in the results, which show differences, and also similarities, between the two sets of petitions. Furthermore, most display some features found in the manuals, but not all of them follow the rules or recommendations faithfully. The writers, who cannot always be identified and may not have been the same as the signees, seem to have been aware of the existence of letter-writing manuals, but they may not have had first-hand contact with them.
PB John Benjamins Publishing Company
SN 9789027207463 (Hardbound)
SN 9789027260826 (e-Book)
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/132689
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/132689
LA eng
NO Calvo Cortés, Nuria. «Variations from letter-writing manuals : “humble petitions” signed by women in Late Modern London». Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English : Literary and linguistic approaches, editado por Andreas H. Jucker y Irma Taavitsainen, vol. 312, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020, pp. 183-212, https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.312.09nur. Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.
NO I would like to thank the peer reviewers and the editors of the present volume for their valuable comments and their contributions to the improvement of the first version of this paper. I would also like to express my gratitude for the financial support provided by the Project: FFI2016 77540-P “Discursos Emergentes y Periféricos: una aproximación crítica y socio-cognitiva” (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain).
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 17 abr 2026