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The letter from Iddin-Sin to Zinu, also known by its technical designation TCL 18 111, [1] is an Old Babylonian letter written by the student Iddin-Sin to his mother Zinu. It is thought to have been written in the city of Larsa in the 18th century BC, around the time of Hammurabi 's reign ( c. 1792–1750 BC).
Westlake also claimed that the use of letters of well-written and eloquent individuals can be adapted to improve letter-writing style. [9] In the New London Fashionable Gentleman's Writer, is an example of the usage of letter writing as a collection of quaint correspondences between hopeful men and the ladies they wished to court. [11]
Writer. Known for. Humanist and feminist writing. Laura Cereta (September 1469 – 1499) was one of the most notable humanist and feminist writers of fifteenth-century Italy. Cereta was the first to put women’s issues and her friendships with women front and center in her work. Cereta wrote in Brescia, Verona, and Venice in 1488–92, known ...
Venetia Stanley (1887–1948). Photograph taken in 1915 by Dorothy Hickling, during her friendship with H. H. Asquith. Beatrice Venetia Stanley Montagu (22 August 1887 – 3 August 1948) was a British aristocrat and socialite best known for the many letters that Prime Minister H. H. Asquith wrote to her between 1910 and 1915.
A Note to a Certain Old Friend. A Note to a Certain Old Friend (或旧友へ送る手記, Aru Kyūyū e Okuru Shuki) is the title of the suicide note left by the famed Japanese short story writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. [1] This was the last thing Akutagawa wrote before he committed suicide at the age of 35 in 1927. [1] The letter was addressed ...
8 p.m.: Krawcheck starts winding down around 8 p.m., and her family and friends are well aware of when she’s ready for bed. “I say, ‘I'm going to take my cranky ass upstairs,” she said.
Letter (message) News from My Lad by James Campbell, 1858–1859 ( Walker Art Gallery) A letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium. [1] Something epistolary means that it is a form of letter writing. The term usually excludes written material intended to be read in its original form by ...
Life writing is an expansive genre that primarily deals with the purposeful recording of personal memories, experiences, opinions, and emotions for different ends. While what actually constitutes life writing has been up for debate throughout history, it has often been defined through the lens of the history of the autobiography genre as well as the concept of the self as it arises in writing.