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Love letters allow an intimate glimpse into the loves and lives of great women in history. Over the centuries, these women have desired and consumed, threatened to despair of men, not infrequently had to renounce, but also often found fulfillment. And they expressed all this in sometimes simple, sometimes highly poetic words. The letter, wrote the philosopher Ricarda Huch, is the literary form of expression most suited to women: casual, spontaneous, impulsive, passionate. Heloisa, Bettina von Arnim, George Sand, Annette von Droste-Hühlshoff, Emily Dickinson, Clara Schumann - they and many other great women used this "feminine" form of the letter to make contact with their beloved counterpart and to express their feelings beyond social barriers. A fascinating collection of the most poignant, ei.