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Gender, Society, and Print Culture in Late Stuart England: The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury.(Book Review)

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| January 01, 2005 | Graf, Amara | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Gender, Society, and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury. By Helen Berry. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003. xiii, 264 pp. $69.95. ISBN 0-7546-0496-9.

Helen Berry entices readers with a book about the "first agony column in history," a provocative genre associated with "prurience and perhaps secret self-identification" (xi). She provides the first in-depth analysis of John Dunton's Athenian Mercury (1691-97), the original question-and-answer publication of the early modern world. Anonymous advice columns such as "Dear Abby," in which people reveal their intimate problems through public media, remain popular in…

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