Eight centuries of women's correspondence: from Eloise to Abelard, Elizabeth I to Erik of Sweden, Mary Wollstonecraft to Talleyrand; Jane Austen, George Sand, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia Woolf, Anais Nin and many others. All the topics of interest to women are covered and organised by subject matter, covering various topics from politics, work and war, childhood, love and sexual passion. This volume reveals the depth, breadth and diversity of women's lives through the ages. It provides an opportunity to read the real words of real women, in their own intimate language. A fascinating overview of eight hundred years demonstrating what has changed -and what has not.