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Family, Friends and Gifts: Bess of Hardwick’s Correspondents
For today’s post, I’ve chosen four letters written to Bess of Hardwick by female relatives and friends of varying ages and status, revisiting the themes of material culture and gift-giving in Magdalen Lloyd’s letters but in a very different social … Continue reading
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Tagged gifts, letters, whm17, women's voices
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