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Abstract
Marie de l'Incarnation's Correspondence comprises the missives of a Touraine bourgeoise widow, mother, tradeswoman, mystic, and missionary educator. The unique circumstances of Marie's letters - the fact that her son became her editor - problematizes the distinction between male lettres and female ignorants that typically guided seventeenth-century thinking with regard to women's epistolary writing.
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