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A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical
The Athenian Mercury—a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London—included the world’s first personal advice column. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize–finalist Mary Beth Norton’s “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer” is a remarkable collection of questions...
A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical
The Athenian Mercury—a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London—included the world’s first personal advice column. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize–finalist Mary Beth Norton’s “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer” is a remarkable collection of questions...
