Nancy Baym wrote:
A related note I've seen mentioned
but can't remember where (Naomi
Baron, are you here? you must know, it was probably you) is 19th
century London where mail was delivered several times daily.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning apparently carried out
their famed courtship through this mail in a way that parallels
email. Nancy
I referred to all this in my paper, reference below. In mid- to late
Victorian London, mail was delivered once every hour for 12 hours of the
day (source: Asa Briggs, Victorian Things, Chicago: Univ. of
Chicago Press, 1988).
- Danet, Brenda. 1997. "Books, Letters, Documents: the Changing
Aesthetics of Texts in Late Print Culture." Journal of Material
Culture 2:5-38.
You have a good memory, Nancy!
Brenda Danet