Elizabeth strategically deployed emotion to achieve particular political goals.
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Loneliness is a common emotion in letters written by Australian service personnel and their loved ones.
The pair were seen as friends but their letters reveal a more intimate life together.
Unusual words or punctuation may serve as ‘tells’ that something has been written by a chatbot. But even with that knowledge, most people struggle to discern human writing from AI-generated text.
Could letter deliveries ultimately be under threat?
‘Queer’ is a word often used to describe Edward Gorey’s mysterious, spooky art. So why is it so hard to acknowledge the artist behind them was queer as well?
In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London’s foremost card manufacturers – to reveal how emotions were being ‘manufactured.’
Sylvia Plath’s writing was witty, political, emotional and sharp. A substantial new collection includes more than 50 previously unpublished stories.
Ancient letters by ordinary Greeks and Romans reveal their everyday triumphs, tragedies and habits.
Iconic authors Joan Didion and Eve Babitz were close in 60s and 70s LA. Journalist Lili Anolik read Eve’s posthumous letters to Joan, and argues each was the closest the other had to a secret twin.
Australia Post’s letter business has been in terminal decline, but its ‘community service obligations’ mean it has to find a way to keep delivering them.
Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism’ could go a long way.
In 1935, a hurricane devastated the Florida Keys, killing over 400 people, many of them World War I veterans. Ernest Hemingway joined the relief efforts – and became enraged at government inaction.
Three years apart in age, Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower were both formed as writers by the fact of being Australian-born women.
While the rise of smartphones and typing impacts handwriting, bad penmanship is far from a new phenomenon. People have struggled to read each other’s handwriting for centuries.
Turns out ‘A’ didn’t have to be the first letter in the alphabet, nor ‘Z’ the last.
The demands on the company are extremely high.
Hundreds of Australians wrote to Jackie Kennedy after her husband was killed. The letters paint a revealing portrait of who we were and who we wanted to be.
André Dao has kept the legacy of his grandparents alive in Anam, a brilliant novel of immense scope that became a full quest for the truth of his family history, which spans the two Vietnam Wars.
His letters reveal a man straining under pressure from his parents to help better their family name.
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Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Associate Research Professor of English, Penn State
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Assistant Lecturer, North Carolina State University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Strategy & International Business Group, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director, Digital Culture and Media Initiative, Penn State
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Lecturer in English, University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW
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Deputy CEO, Regional Australia Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, The Open University
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Lecturer in French Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Regents' Professor Emeritus of English, Georgia State University
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Professor in School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol
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Curator of Scientific Collections, University of Cambridge