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Recovering Lost Women’s Voices: The 17th-century manuscript letters of Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar
Recovering Lost Women’s Voices: The 17th-century manuscript letters of Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar
Would you queue for hours to see a 400-hundred-year-old piece of paper? In 2017 over a thousand people waited patiently in Edinburgh to steal a glance at the last ever letter written by Mary, Queen of Scots, the most famous woman in Scottish history. Such handwritten letters are uniquely personal objects, retaining traces of the writer’s touch and providing a direct physical link to people of the past.
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