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330.
11
See Stanley, “The Epistolarium”; Decker, Epistolary Practices; David A. Gerber, Authors of Their
Lives. The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth
Century (New York: New York University Press, 2006).
12
Janet Gurkin Altman, Epistolarity. Approaches to a Form (Columbus: Ohio State University
Press, 1982), e.g. 117.
13
Gerber, Authors of Their Lives, 2; Halldórsdóttir, “Kvennabréfin”; David Barton and Nigel Hall
eds, Letter Writing As a Social Practice (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000); Susan E. Whyman,
The Pen and the People. English Letter Writers 1660–1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011
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14
Gerber, Authors of Their Lives, 227.
15
Ken Plummer, Documents of Life 2. An Invitation to a Critical Humanism (London: Sage
Publication, 2001), 18.
16
Plummer, Documents of Life 2, 39.
17
Decker, Epistolary Practices, 9.
18
Finnur Sigmundsson ed, Skrifarinn á Stapa: Sendibréf 1806–1877. Íslenzk sendibréf (Reykjavík:
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19
Gerber, Authors of their Lives, 55–56.
20
Halldórsdóttir, “’Don’t you forget”.
21
Gerber, Authors of Their Lives, 4.
22
Hermione Lee, Biography. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009),
122.
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