清代浙江闺秀作家情书之管窥

Abstract

In Qing Dynasty literary world, there were lots of women writers. They were good at poetry and ci, skilled in calligraphy and painting and they also wrote articles. This paper takes the women writers’ love letters in middle Qing Dynasty for example and analyzes its ideological content from three respects: lovesickness, propitiating the husband and educating the children and poetry letters. Then this paper studies these love letters’ emotional characteristics through comparing them with the love letters writing by the women writers from different identities, areas and times. Through the research on women writers’ love letters, we hope to espy their marriage life and emotional state and deepen the study of Qing Dynasty women literature.