Love and the Athenian Mercury: 1600s advice column still resonates
April 22, 2025
April 22, 2025
ITHACA, New York, April 22 -- Cornell University posted the following news:
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Love and the Athenian Mercury: 1600s advice column still resonates
As an avid reader of personal advice columns, historian Mary Beth Norton found the perfect confluence of interests in the Athenian Mercury, a London periodical published from 1691-97. Each one-page, two-sided broadsheet included questions from anonymous readers and responses from the publisher and his two broth . . .
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Love and the Athenian Mercury: 1600s advice column still resonates
As an avid reader of personal advice columns, historian Mary Beth Norton found the perfect confluence of interests in the Athenian Mercury, a London periodical published from 1691-97. Each one-page, two-sided broadsheet included questions from anonymous readers and responses from the publisher and his two broth . . .