Public and Personal Letters: Julia Griffiths and Frederick Douglass' Paper
2012; Frank Cass & Co.; Volume: 33; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/0144039x.2012.669902
ISSN1743-9523
Autores Tópico(s)Scottish History and National Identity
ResumoThis essay examines Julia Griffiths' contributions to Frederick Douglass' Paper, arguing that Griffiths had a stronger sense than Douglass of the newspaper as an instrument of sociability, and that letters were crucial to its production. The paper's multiple and overlapping forms of circulation blended print, manuscript and private communication. Griffiths' own column took the form of a letter, borrowing the warmth and familiarity of personal correspondence. Part of the mid-century flowering of British and American women's periodical writing, it adopted the developing conventions of the travelling correspondent, and demonstrates some of the wider cultural aspirations of Douglass's anti-slavery newspaper.
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