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| Foreword | xiii | |
| Introduction | xvii | |
| Editor's Note | xxvii | |
| The Tell-Off | ||
| Emma Hart (Lady Hamilton) to Charles Greville 1786 | 3 | |
| Germaine de Stael to Chevalier Francois de Pange 1795 | 5 | |
| Rebecca West to H.G. Wells 1913 | 7 | |
| Violet Veitch Coward to Arthur Coward 1930 | 9 | |
| Anais Nin to C. L. Baldwin 1945 | 10 | |
| Anne Sexton to Torgie 1945 | 13 | |
| Jessica to Scott 1998 | 14 | |
| Kylie to Jamie 1999 | 16 | |
| Lola Fondue to Ira 2000 | 18 | |
| Tanya to Ryan 2000 | 20 | |
| Natasha Carrie Cohen to Peter 2001 | 26 | |
| The Silent Treatment | ||
| Sophia Dorothea of Celle to Philipp Christoph von Konigsmarck 1693 | 31 | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Francesco Algarotti 1739 | 32 | |
| Girolama Piccolomini to James Boswell 1767 | 33 | |
| Lady Falkland to Lord Byron 1813 | 35 | |
| George Sand to Michel de Bourges 1837 | 37 | |
| Sarah Bernhardt to Jean Richepin 1884 | 40 | |
| Edith Wharton to W. Morton Fullerton 1910 | 42 | |
| Aline Bernstein to Thomas Wolfe (series) 1930 | 44 | |
| The Autopsy | ||
| Kate Field to Albert Baldwin 1868 | 51 | |
| Dorothy L. Sayers to John Cournos (series) 1924 | 54 | |
| Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald to F. Scott Fitzgerald 1935 | 57 | |
| Kate Christensen to John 1987 | 59 | |
| Danielle to Adam 2001 | 63 | |
| Jean Gelatt to Jack 2001 | 64 | |
| The "Just Friends?" | ||
| Anne de L'Enclos to the Marquis de Sevigne 1670 | 75 | |
| Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple 1653 | 77 | |
| Sarah Bernhardt to Jean Mounet-Sully 1874 | 80 | |
| Stella Bowen to Ford Madox Ford 1928 | 81 | |
| Elizabeth Waugh to Edmund Wilson 1937 | 84 | |
| Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren 1950 | 86 | |
| Dame Freya Stark to Stewart Perowne 1951 | 88 | |
| Sylvia Plath to Philip McCurdy 1954 | 89 | |
| Princess Margaret to Robin Douglas-Home 1967 | 94 | |
| Anne Sexton to Philip Legler 1970 | 95 | |
| Guile to Louise 2001 | 97 | |
| Cindy Chupack to Rick 2001 | 99 | |
| The Other Woman/Other Man (Real and Virtual) | ||
| Anne Boleyn to Henry VIII 1536 | 103 | |
| Harriette Wilson to Lord Craven 1803 | 105 | |
| Sarah Austin to Prince Hermann von Puckler-Muskau 1836 | 105 | |
| Etta May White to George H. White 1905 | 107 | |
| Isadora Duncan to Paris Singer 1912 | 109 | |
| Beatrice Forbes-Robertson to Swinburne Hale 1918 | 110 | |
| Dorothy Thompson to Joseph Bard (series) 1926-1927 | 113 | |
| Agnes Boulton to Eugene O'Neill 1927 | 120 | |
| Katherine Anne Porter to Matthew Josephson 1931 | 122 | |
| Frances Boldereff to Charles Olson 1950 | 125 | |
| Catherine Texier to Joel Rose 1996-1997 | 126 | |
| Helene Verin to Luke 1997 | 137 | |
| Maggie Kim to Michael 2000 | 137 | |
| Elisa Zuritsky to Zach 2002 | 139 | |
| The Divorce Letter | ||
| Anne of Cleves to Henry VIII 1540 | 143 | |
| Ellen Coile Graves to Henry Graves 1844 | 144 | |
| Nina Eliza Pinchback Toomer to Nathan Toomer 1897 | 146 | |
| Clara Bewick Colby to Leonard Wright Colby 1903 | 151 | |
| Mabel Dodge Luhan to Maurice Sterne 1918 | 156 | |
| Dorothy Thompson to Sinclair Lewis 1938 | 158 | |
| Madeline to John 1999 | 159 | |
| Kathy Fitzgerald Sherman to M--2000 | 160 | |
| The "Dear John" | ||
| Agnes von Kurowsky to Ernest Hemingway 1919 | 170 | |
| Jacqueline Susann to Irving Mansfield 1943 | 171 | |
| Lois to Harry Leister 1944 | 172 | |
| Virginia K. to Leonard M. Owczarzak 1944 | 173 | |
| Annette to Sylvan Summers 1945 | 174 | |
| Rosemarie Keller Skaine to Bob Trentz 1954 | 176 | |
| Susie Q.to Johnny Smack-O 1970 | 177 | |
| Carol C. to Michael Hansen 1971 | 182 | |
| Betsy to Ben 2001 | 184 | |
| The Marriage Refusal | ||
| Queen Elizabeth I to Prince Erik 1560 | 189 | |
| Fanny Burney to Thomas Barlow 1775 | 190 | |
| Fanny Kelly to Charles Lamb 1819 | 191 | |
| Charlotte Bronte to Henry Nussey 1839 | 192 | |
| Lucy Stone to Henry Blackwell 1854 | 194 | |
| Mollie Bidwell to Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz 1873 | 195 | |
| Vera Komissarzhevskaia to Sergei Tatischev 1896 | 196 | |
| Virginia Stephen to Sydney Waterlow 1911 | 198 | |
| Virginia Stephen to Leonard Woolf 1912 | 198 | |
| The Classic | ||
| Heroides ca. 10 B.C. | 205 | |
| The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (letter by Heloise) ca. 1132 | 211 | |
| The Invective Letters 1539 | 220 | |
| The Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun 1669 | 226 | |
| Olinda's Adventures 1693 | 232 | |
| The Female Critick 1701 | 234 | |
| Letters from the Marchioness de M*** to the Count de R*** 1735 | 236 | |
| Letters from a Peruvian Woman 1747 | 238 | |
| Clarissa 1747 | 241 | |
| Epistles for the Ladies 1749 | 243 | |
| Lettres of Mistriss Fanni Butlerd 1757 | 245 | |
| Persian Letters 1761 | 245 | |
| Julie 1761 | 247 | |
| Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1782 | 255 | |
| The Prescriptive Letter | ||
| Familiar Letters on Important Occasions 1741 | ||
| From a Young Maiden, abandoned by her Lover for the sake of a greater Fortune | 262 | |
| The Lovers' Letter-Writer ca. 1800 | ||
| Reply to a letter sent by a Stranger who saw a Woman at Church | 264 | |
| Angry Reply to a letter from a Jealous Man | 264 | |
| Reply to a letter from a Gentleman in Moderate Circumstances to a Rich Lady | 265 | |
| Unfavorable Reply to a letter regarding a Reverse of Fortune and the Duty arising therefrom | 265 | |
| Unfavorable Reply to a letter from an ardent young Man, avowing a passion he had entertained for a length of time, fearful of disclosing it | 266 | |
| Reply to a letter from a Gentleman desirous of discontinuing his addresses | 267 | |
| The new universal letter-writer 1834 | ||
| From a Young Lady, to a Gentleman that courted her, whom she could not like, but was forced by her parents to receive his visits, and think of none else for a husband | 268 | |
| The American lady's and gentlemen's modern letter-writer | ||
| A Lady Refusing Proposals 1847 | 269 | |
| Beeton's Complete Letter-Writer for Ladies and Gentlemen 1873 | ||
| Answer to a Missionary's Proposal negatively | 270 | |
| Maid Servant answering a cool Letter from her Lover | 271 | |
| The Practical Letter-Writer 19-- | ||
| An answer to a letter from a Young Man just out of his Apprenticeship, to his Sweetheart in the neighborhood | 272 | |
| From a Lady to a Gentleman, complaining of indifference | 272 | |
| The Love letter writer 19-- | ||
| From a young woman to her lover notifying him of her breaking away | 273 | |
| A reply to "a letter of courtship from an elderly man to a girl of nineteen" | 274 | |
| Love Letters 1925 | ||
| A reply From one who has experienced a change of feeling, but wishes to express herself in as kind a manner as possible | 275 | |
| Mad's All Inclusive Do-It-Yourself "Dear John" Letter 1979 | 276 | |
| Kiss-Off Letters to Men 2001 | 281 | |
| Dear Jerk Sample Letter 2001 | 282 | |
| The Fictional Letter | ||
| Corinne 1807 | 287 | |
| Sense and Sensibility 1811 | 289 | |
| The Seducer's Diary 1843 | 290 | |
| The Way We Live Now 1875 | 291 | |
| Falso in scrittura 1899 | 294 | |
| Love Letters of an Irishwoman 1901 | 295 | |
| The Vagabond 1910 | 297 | |
| The Dangerous Age 1910 | 299 | |
| Love Letters of a Divorced Couple 1915 | 301 | |
| Summer 1917 | 303 | |
| "A Very Short Story" 1925 | 303 | |
| Mary 1926 | 304 | |
| New Portuguese Letters 1972 | 305 | |
| A Woman of Independent Means 1978 | 309 | |
| Great Expectations 1982 | 310 | |
| A Love Letter Never Sent 1995 | 311 | |
| The Unsent Letter | ||
| Alma Mahler-Werfel to Gustav Klimt 1899 | 318 | |
| Henrietta Szold to Louis Ginzberg 1905 | 319 | |
| Jennifer Belle to Richard 1994 | 322 | |
| Chris Kraus to Dick 1995 | 323 | |
| Rhiannon to Simon 1998 | 326 | |
| Trece to Quentin 1999 | 327 | |
| Kim W. to Tobey 2001 | 328 | |
| Elizabeth Hayt to Anthony Joseph Costagliola 2001 | 330 | |
| Rebecca to Randy 2001 | 331 | |
| Lynn Harris to Daniel 2001 | 333 | |
| Molly Jong-Fast to Married Fashion Designer 2001 | 334 | |
| Lucinda Rosenfeld to X 2002 | 336 | |
| Leigh L. to Brian, Josh, Sam, Paul, Christian, Will, Johnny, David, Zack, Rapper, Max, and Ethan 2002 | 338 | |
| Chandra to Ellis 2002 | 342 | |
| The Goodbye Letter 1776 | ||
| Julie de Lespinasse to Comte de Guibert 1796 | 347 | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay 1803 | 348 | |
| Charlotte Smith to Benjamin Smith 1803 | 349 | |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Charles Walter Stetson 1888 | 351 | |
| Paula Modersohn-Becker to Otto Modersohn 1906 | 352 | |
| Dora Carrington to Gerald Brenan 1924 | 353 | |
| Laurel Stalla to Josh 2001 | 355 | |
| Alex Kuczynski to M. 2001 | 357 | |
| Lisa G. to Lee 2001 | 358 | |
| Acknowledgments | 361 | |
| Bibliography | 369 | |
| Permissions Acknowledgments | 389 | |
| Index | 396 |
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Michael Stiwinter
reviewed Hell Hath No Fury: Women's Letters from the End of the Affair on December 10, 2019
Hell Hath No Fury: Women's Letters from the End of the Affair
There's something about reading other women's anger, feeling other women's pain, and cackling over other women's exacting of revenge that can be just so goddamn cathartic.
Hell Hath No Fury is at once fun and sobering, a rich trove of snapshots of women's lives and the men who have done them wrong (or were otherwise unsatisfactory), and gives those of us interested in and concerned about it a cultural-anthropological peek into patriarchy and class within certain demographics over the centuries. I've not read every single letter, but I like to crack it open when I'm feeling in need of by-proxy venting, or to have some romantic heartstring pulled, or simply out of the morbid curiosity that fuels lust for gossip.
It's a nice rainy-day (or really any-day) casual reader and would make for a great gift between girlfriends or feminist academic colleagues.
Edit: For those who found difficulty empathizing with the writers for not knowing who they were and felt a bit robbed by the lack of detailed information in the backstory snippets, it really pays to do a little cursory research while reading this--or anything! Googling a name can be pretty revealing, and it can add a lot more substance to one's personal read-through of this collection. There are also reviews finding the letters to be boring, and I assume the majority of these reviewers find particular interest in the shock value and glamour of reality TV; if one is looking for a lot of fast-paced vitriol and vindictiveness within this, one will probably not find it. There are a couple with these qualities, and they're pretty shocking, but on the whole, the messages within a lot of these letters are very subtle and exceptionally artful. One phenomenal example of this is Anne of Cleves' divorce letter to Henry VIII. Appreciation of letters like this requires some historical knowledge and understanding of the political climate at the time, who these people were, the nuances and customs of speech as well as, as an example, what languages Anne and Henry might have originally and most often communicated in, as then the reader will know from what language this letter was originally translated into English.
So, perhaps this collection isn't for everyone, but for those it's for, it's bound to be valuable.
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Add Hell Hath No Fury: Women's Letters from the End of the Affair, It's as old as time: the breakup letter. The kiss-off. The Dear John. The big adios. Simple in its premise, stunningly perfect in its effect. From Anne Boleyn to Sex and the City writer/producer Cindy Chupack, from women both well-known and unknown, Hell Hath No Fury: Women's Letters from the End of the Affair to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Hell Hath No Fury: Women's Letters from the End of the Affair, It's as old as time: the breakup letter. The kiss-off. The Dear John. The big adios. Simple in its premise, stunningly perfect in its effect. From Anne Boleyn to Sex and the City writer/producer Cindy Chupack, from women both well-known and unknown, Hell Hath No Fury: Women's Letters from the End of the Affair to your collection on WonderClub |
