… one case, Steele used his own love letters to his wife), 8 and therefore contributed significantly to the fashion for epistolary narratives as a vehicle for polite discussion. And the paper’s audience was explicitly the privately sociable …
… own anxieties are nevertheless visible both in her rejection of the Branghtons and their ilk, and in Evelina’s polite epistolary style – the first, more vivacious manuscript that delighted Frances’s siblings was heavily redacted by the …